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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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 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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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