When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense. - Shaun White
You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes. - Shaun White
You just get your skateboard and you go out in the street and you figure it out and you have fun with your friends. - Shaun White
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy. - Shaun White
You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. - Shaun White
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling. - Shaun White
And, 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
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. - Rowan Atkinson
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. - Rowan Atkinson
Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. - Rowan Atkinson
Get that right, then- 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. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that’s important to me. - Rowan Atkinson
Have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. Do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go. - Rowan Atkinson
I don’t much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it’s inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. - Rowan Atkinson
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother’s Morris Minor. I drove it around my father’s farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. - Rowan Atkinson
I 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 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. - Rowan Atkinson
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time. - Rowan Atkinson
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