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
dinner nasty piece quite sort
Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with.
funny sarcastic men
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
clever ambition simple
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
good-friend light serious
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
perfectionism feels
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
funny sarcastic men
Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
devil cows path
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
treated bits
It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
marketing interviews sides
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.
marketing
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
comedian visuals
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
christian religious careers
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.