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. Rowan Atkinson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. Rowan Atkinson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. Rowan Atkinson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. Rowan Atkinson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
