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.
ROWAN ATKINSONFunny 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing is what gets you noticed.
ROWAN ATKINSONEnjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
ROWAN ATKINSONI like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONFor 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONMy personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSONBirthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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