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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
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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Expression Home Silence
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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
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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Camera Man Want
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
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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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell

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