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.
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.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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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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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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