I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. - Rowan Atkinson
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. - Rowan Atkinson
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. - Rowan Atkinson
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character — a lead character — in a movie to not care about anybody else. - Rowan Atkinson
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. - Rowan Atkinson
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. - Rowan Atkinson
I’m very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off — I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things. - Rowan Atkinson
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all — you just say he’s a spy and he’s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he’s not very good at his job. - Rowan Atkinson
It’s the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. - Rowan Atkinson
Marketing 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 Atkinson
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. - Rowan Atkinson
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 Atkinson
Mr. 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. - Rowan Atkinson
No, I was only funny on stage, really. I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. - Rowan Atkinson
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I’m sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor’s careers not at all it doesn’t matter. - Rowan Atkinson
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. - Rowan Atkinson
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. - Rowan Atkinson
The 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. - Rowan Atkinson
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life. - Rowan Atkinson
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you’re bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don’t. - Rowan Atkinson
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. - Rowan Atkinson
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