I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. 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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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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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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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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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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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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 think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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