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" I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. "

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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. "

" Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. "

" I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. "

" In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like. "

" But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. "

" I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. "

" I 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. "

" Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. "

" 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. "

" Get that right, then- 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. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me. "

" I have always worried about things more than I should. "

" I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. "

" It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. "

" We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming. "

" There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. "

" To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. "

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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. "

" And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face. "

" It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. "

" I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else. "

" Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. "

" I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time. "

" Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter. "