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In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether its 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. – Rowan Atkinson

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

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

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Confronting a stadium audience, you cant see the whites of their eyes. Its just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you cant see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. – Rowan Atkinson

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