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" It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna. "
Rowan Atkinson
Madonna
Being
Treated
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" 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. "
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Two
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" I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else. "
Rowan Atkinson
Else
Make
Than
" The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. "
Rowan Atkinson
Criticism
Problem
View
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Life
Camera
Feel
" And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. "
Rowan Atkinson
Value
Lot
Creative
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Always
Character
Timeless
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Difficult
Thought
Think
" I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. "
Rowan Atkinson
Collector
Causes
Toy
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Flow
Try
Say
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Think
Language
You
" When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. "
Rowan Atkinson
Done
Character
Doing
" The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. "
Rowan Atkinson
Path
More
Life
" I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time. "
Rowan Atkinson
Like
Nothing
Ball
" I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. "
Rowan Atkinson
Physical
Visual
Than
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Quality
Nature
Important
" I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else. "
Rowan Atkinson
Character
Difficult
Fun
" But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective. "
Rowan Atkinson
Speaking
Introspective
Tend
" In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job. "
Rowan Atkinson
You
Need
Explain
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Funny
Think
I Am
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Explain
You
TV
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
See
Eyes
Audience
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Culture
Money
You
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
Someone
Childlike
Got
" It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. "
Rowan Atkinson
Easy
Feature
Take
" I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. "
Rowan Atkinson
Think
Mean
Good Friends
" I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. "
Rowan Atkinson
Up
Opportunity
Return
" But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. "
Rowan Atkinson
Could
Better
Whatever
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
People
Society
Church
" 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. "
Rowan Atkinson
You
Quality
Important
" Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying. "
Rowan Atkinson
Lazy
Work
Because