I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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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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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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