I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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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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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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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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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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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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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 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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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 return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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 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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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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