I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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.
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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.
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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