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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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Acting Character Opportunity
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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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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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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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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