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
want way different
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
path determine happenstance
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
easy turns features
It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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.
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
religious race law
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform
sarcastic sarcasm views
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
character years done
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
character thinking play
I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
men funny-men ifs
I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
important trying quality
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
character tvs needs
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.