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Rowan Atkinson (Actor)

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 funny

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 man

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 religion

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

— Rowan Atkinson life

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 joy

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 time

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 age

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

— Rowan Atkinson joy

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

— Rowan Atkinson friends

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 words

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 sin

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

— Rowan Atkinson self

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

— Rowan Atkinson man

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.

— Rowan Atkinson believe

I have always worried about things more than I should.

— Rowan Atkinson

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

— Rowan Atkinson hate

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

— Rowan Atkinson end

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, 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 funny

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 time

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 joy

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

— Rowan Atkinson character

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 art

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 life

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

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

— Rowan Atkinson character

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. Im not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And Im certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

— Rowan Atkinson funny

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