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.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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