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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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Expression Home Silence
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
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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Camera Man Want
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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Age Character Regard Remember Time
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
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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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
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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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
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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Children Decline Face Physical Sad
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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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow

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