I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
Rowan AtkinsonI'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
Rowan AtkinsonIt certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.
Rowan Atkinson