I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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