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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Company Deep Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Inspirational
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
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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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Criticism Film
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want

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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