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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

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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Camera Man Want
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
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
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
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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
Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Company Deep Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Inspirational
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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
A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous

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