I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSONExcellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSONSometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONfeel 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing is what gets you noticed.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSONPeople 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONI consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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 ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSONI tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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