If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSONfeel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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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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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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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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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 particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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