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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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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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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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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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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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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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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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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