My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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 think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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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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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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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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