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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
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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Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
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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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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
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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Mr. 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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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 find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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