My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad.… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
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… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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