I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your… — 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
The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not… — 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
Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way,… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — 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
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