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 ATKINSONI 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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