The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSONEnjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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A 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.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Apart 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.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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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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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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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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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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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’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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I 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.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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