I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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 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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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