The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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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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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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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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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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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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