I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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 job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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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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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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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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 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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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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