But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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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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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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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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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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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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