Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSONYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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 find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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The 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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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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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 want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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 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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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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