If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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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.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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