I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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.
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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?
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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The 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.
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