I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things. Rowan Atkinson easyfindgood Change image and share on social
I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else. Rowan Atkinson criticalfilmmake Change image and share on social
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 amusecomicfunny Change image and share on social
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. Rowan Atkinson beanequallyexpression Change image and share on social
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project. Rowan Atkinson enjoyinterviewmarkete Change image and share on social
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. Rowan Atkinson comedianphysicalvisual Change image and share on social
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. Rowan Atkinson cambridgecomedycrowd share on social
It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. Rowan Atkinson easyfeaturesit Change image and share on social
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 allegeamorphousaudience share on social
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job. Rowan Atkinson bitecommercialexplain share on social
