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.
ROWAN ATKINSONFunny 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
ROWAN ATKINSONI tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSONExcellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSONMy personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf you want to be strong learn to live alone.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONA 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 ATKINSONI’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
ROWAN ATKINSONI have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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 ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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