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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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 mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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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 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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