Rowan Atkinson Quotes

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

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.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

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.

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.

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.