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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Rowan Atkinson

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
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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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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Body Children Culture Essential Man
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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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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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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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

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