Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSONA 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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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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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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 essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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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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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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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