I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSONI don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSONI can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
ROWAN ATKINSONTry to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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 ATKINSONIf you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSONYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSONI find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONI am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
ROWAN ATKINSONI want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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 ATKINSONEnjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONWe 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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