Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
ROWAN ATKINSONEnjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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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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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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.
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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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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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