You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSONApart 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
-
-
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON