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.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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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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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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