Top 40 Bean Quotes

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

One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.

‘Power’ is Andy Bean’s first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!

Until you get left for Mr. Bean, you don’t realise how frequently he pops up. There’s a shop two streets from my house that sells masks of his face. There’s nowhere where I’m going to go that he’s not there.

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, ‘You’re so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,’ and I would say, ‘You can’t mean me!’

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I’ve ever eaten. It’s like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

I’m easy to pick on because I’m a string bean.

Our education system has been taken over by bean counters and narrow-mindedness.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law’s recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

I’m very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It’s a relationship that makes sense to me. I’m very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

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.

You can easily compare chocolate to wine. What makes a good wine is usually a good terroir, a good grape, and the weather has something to do with it. Chocolate is the same, from where the cacao bean grows to what type of tree it grows on.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.

If we’re all talking about something that doesn’t matter, it can be bean talk. If we’re talking about something that we’re talking about together, it could be bean talk.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

I am a Tintin girl and grew up on Archie comics. Then I was introduced to Mr. Bean.

My wife just so happens to make an amazing bean dip.

You want two-thirds of that plate to be consisting of vegetables, whole grains and fruits, with one-third of it protein. That protein can be a bean – black beans, chick peas, lentils. It can be a lean protein, like fish or poultry.

I love to bake, so I made vanilla bean and blueberry muffins for sick hospital children. Just kidding! All of that is true except the sick children part.

I love to make soups. My father used to say, ‘There’s nothing like a nice bowl of soup.’ One of my favorites is… ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I’ve used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That’s one of my good ones.

A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Town meetings are not bean bag. I’ve had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that’s part of America, part of our process.

When I’m overseas, I suspect I look like Mr. Bean.

You don’t have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!

I don’t go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, ‘Uhhh, I’m done’ when I eat.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don’t want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn’t work.

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, ‘Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let’s try that moment and expand in that direction.’

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

In Dallas, I eat bean soup and bean pies every day. On Saturdays, I treat myself to a veggie pizza.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

Sometimes people feel really trapped by the body that they have. Women are told, ‘You have this body shape; you’re a pear or string bean, and you can’t change the way you look.’ That’s just not true.

Canned chickpeas are my tried-and-true pantry fallback for those days where I get home late with no game plan and no energy to cook. More than just about any other canned bean, they retain their shape and texture really well.

If you make a huge pot of soup, you can freeze part of it and eat off it for days. I love making green bean soup, and I’ll throw in some cashews, almonds or tofu, and voila, I’ve got a soup that’s loaded with protein and vegetables.

I love Thai boat noodles: They are kind of like pho, but with a very hearty broth. I will make the broth and just do no noodles and more bean sprouts. I need to be able to eat what I want to eat, so I just get rid of as many carbs as possible that go into it.

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.

There’s too many people in seats of power who just haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They’re bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.