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Rowan Atkinson

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
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
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
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
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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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
The 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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
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 would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
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
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
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
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
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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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
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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Ball Extend Period Time
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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
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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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife

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