I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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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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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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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 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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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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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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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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