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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
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
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
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
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
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
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
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
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
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
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.
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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project

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