I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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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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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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