I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
-
-
If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
The 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 ATKINSON -
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
ROWAN ATKINSON






