The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSONWhen 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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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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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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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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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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 am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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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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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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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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