The Best Rowan Atkinson quotes

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

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

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

Certainly in the second film [Maigret’s Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it’s quite different in tone and feel. — Rowan Atkinson

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

At the moment, I’m certainly not thinking ‘never again’, but neither am I thinking ‘I can’t wait to play that part again’. I’m somewhere in between. — Rowan Atkinson

Johnny English is someone who really means well it’s just that he’s not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that’s the British male in a nutshell. — Rowan Atkinson

I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else. — Rowan Atkinson

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

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it. — Rowan Atkinson

No, 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

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

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

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

I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy. — Rowan Atkinson

I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play. — Rowan Atkinson

The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn’t helped by the story that we were telling. — Rowan Atkinson

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

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character. — Rowan Atkinson

I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift. — Rowan Atkinson

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. — Rowan Atkinson

I don’t really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting]. — Rowan Atkinson

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

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

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

Loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who — Rowan Atkinson

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. — Rowan Atkinson

You’re about as useful as a one–legged man at an arse kicking contest. — Rowan Atkinson

It’s not easy to take a sit–com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson

It’s the demand in many ways of modern television drama–it’s very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I’ve played have not been low key and naturalistic. — Rowan Atkinson

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