I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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 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 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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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