Rowan Atkinson Quotes

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, Age, Person

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

Useful, Contest, Kicking

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

Whatever, Suppose

I have always worried about things more than I should.
Rowan Atkinson

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

Quiet, Speaking, Tend

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

Work, Lazy, Enjoy

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, Freedom, Person

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

Society, Arrogance, Actually

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

Money, Important, Try

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, Almost, Though

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
Rowan Atkinson

Else, Anyone, Films

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

Problem, Insult, Point

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, Him, Face

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

Put, Creative, Value

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

Sad, Someone, Fact

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

Home, Eyes, Quite

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

Funny, Happen, Before

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
Rowan Atkinson

Physical, Consider, Visual

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

Mean, Enjoy, Qualities

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

Car, Mother, Father

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

Character, Rather, Remembered

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

Try, Quality, Disease

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, Nothing, Down

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

Good, Mean, Friends

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

Job, Thought, Acting

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Nationality: English

Born: January 6, 1956

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