At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'.… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“[Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.” quote by Rowan Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b2/rowan-atkinson-3883_comic_maigret-is-terribly-self-contained-not-t_2801004.jpg)
