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" Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. "

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" Mr. 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. "

Rowan Atkinson

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Child

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. "

" But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective. "

" 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

Nothing

Ball

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. "

" It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna. "

" I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things. "

" I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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You

" 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. "

" Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. "

" 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. "

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