Rowan Atkinson Quotes

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  • Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

  • [Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The 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.

  • I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

  • I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

    "Fears of a clown" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.
  • I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • 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.

  • We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

  • ITV and the production company contacted me and asked if I fancied playing the role [of Maigret]. It took me a long time to decide to do it. In fact, I decided not to. I thought about it for some weeks, and thought 'perhaps not' and it went away for a while, and then it sort of came back. They said 'Are you sure you don't want to play him?', so I thought about it for a lot longer again, and eventually decided that I would.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • 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.

  • 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 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.
  • I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • 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.

    "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 18, 2003.
  • 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. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

  • Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

  • I 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 Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.
  • In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

  • 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: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.
  • The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

  • 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.

  • The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • [Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • 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.

  • It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
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