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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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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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 consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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 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 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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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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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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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