Rowan Atkinson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.”

“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.”

“And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.”

“I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.”

“I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.”

“I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.”

“It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.”

“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.”

“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.”