I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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.
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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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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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 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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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.
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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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