Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBEis an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean. Atkinson first came to prominence in the sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News, and via his participation in The Secret Policeman's Ball from 1979. His other work includes the Bond movie Never Say Never Again and the sitcom The Thin Blue Line...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 January 1955
CityConsett, England
children thinking age
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.
mean-girls good-friend thinking
I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
balls down-and periods
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
atheism trends appreciative
I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.
relax film problem
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
serious actors tomorrow
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
insect since situation sticky stuck
We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.
age classmates funny toward
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, 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.
bean bizarre children global identify similar trapped
Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
anybody anyone difficult episodic lead main suit tend
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
america bound common course divided england english
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.
came character opportunity qualms return
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
inferior particular
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.
comic ends hardly
And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.