I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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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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