I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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 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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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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