I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
-
-
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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 -
I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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 -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
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?
ROWAN ATKINSON -
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
ROWAN ATKINSON