Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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