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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.

Rowan Atkinson

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
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
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
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
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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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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
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
I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
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
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
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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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
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
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
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner

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