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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.

Rowan Atkinson

I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
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
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 not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
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
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 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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Actor Attitude Particular People Play
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
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
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
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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Camera Man Want
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
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
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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.
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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious

I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.

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