Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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I 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.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I 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.
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People 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.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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