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 find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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