I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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