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Rowan Atkinson

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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 ATKINSON

Body Children Culture Essential Man
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Behaviour Funny

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