“Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.”

Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.

If you want to be strong learn to live alone.

I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.

Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.

I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.

Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.

I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

We must be allowed to insult each other.

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.

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.

I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.

To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.

If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

I’m just happy to do projects I’m passionate about.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.