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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.

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
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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Deep Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Inspirational
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Interesting Play Role
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
We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Business Creative Market Try
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural

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