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Rowan Atkinson Quotes

English - Comedian | January 6, 1956 -

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

Good Toy Like Collector Many Causes

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.

Nature Quality Tradition Television

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

Better Feel Always Whatever Could

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.

Quality Go Say Flow Try More

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.

Sad Think Someone You Childlike

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.

Character Fun Think Care Difficult

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

Quiet Speaking Tend Introspective

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.

Life Man Feel Camera You Kind

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.

Character You More Need Explain TV

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 Am People Think Laugh Quiet I Can

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

Character Face Interesting Pie Him

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.

Funny Age Child Think You Person

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