But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
ROWAN ATKINSONI find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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 ATKINSONI think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSONWe must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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.
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 ATKINSONYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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 ATKINSONI have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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