I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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