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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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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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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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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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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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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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 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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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