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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
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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Abuse Activity Atheist Deserve Human Incite Intense Outrageous Religion Teaching
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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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
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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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
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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Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
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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Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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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Age Character Regard Remember Time
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
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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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
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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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural

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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