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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
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 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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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
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
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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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
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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Absolute Play Thinking
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
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 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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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