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

Rowan Atkinson

feel 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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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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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 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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
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 is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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