Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSONApart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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’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 more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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 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.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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