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Rowan Atkinson

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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Body Children Culture Essential Man
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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Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
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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Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
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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Funny Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
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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Children Decline Face Physical Sad
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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Expression Home Silence
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
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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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
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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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
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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Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking

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