Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSONYou’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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 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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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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