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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

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Alone Healing Inspirational Learning Live One Liner Strong
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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.
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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
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
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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Age Character Regard Remember Time
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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Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
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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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth

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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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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