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 ATKINSONA 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 ATKINSONI tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSONSometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
ROWAN ATKINSONEnjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONI don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
ROWAN ATKINSONfeel 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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 ATKINSONBirthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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