ARTS / Overheard

There is a lot of Mr Bean in me. He's like I was when I was nine. - Rowan Atkinson, Cosmopolitan

The ultimate exchange of body fluids. - Director Nigel Finch on The Vampyr (BBC2), Guardian

I enjoy being in the limelight, but I'd hate to think I got there without doing something. That's where madness lies. People forget it's what they do that's important, not them. - Clive James on Fame, Radio Times

I'd rather drive an ice-pick through my forehead. - Tim Burton, when asked if he'd make another Batman, Time Out

The film business has gone so low lately. It's tied to a fast-food, sound-bite, MTV, give-it-to-me-now mentality. Very little is asked of audiences. - Robert Redford, Esquire

I don't mind seducing as long as at the end of the seduction there's an idea or a shock. - Alan Rickman, Woman's Journal

All right. Stay bright. - Alan Freeman, saying goodbye to Pick of the Pops, Radio 1

I've got very fond of the old blighter over the years. - John Thaw, saying goodbye to Inspector Morse, TV Times