black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.

Rowan Atkinson

I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Interesting Play Role
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON

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

Expression Home Silence
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

Age Character Regard Remember Time
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Attitude Particular People Play
We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Chance Success
I’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 ATKINSON

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Television
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

Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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

Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
feel 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 ATKINSON

Camera Man Want
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Body Children Culture Essential Man

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rowan Atkinson Quotes