Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
ROWAN ATKINSONI mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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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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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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 think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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