Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
Rowan AtkinsonI'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
Rowan AtkinsonMr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
Rowan AtkinsonI suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
Rowan AtkinsonThis is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your mind up on whether I've succeeded or not. But yes, I found it difficult when we were shooting; it was a couple of weeks before I settled into not worrying - to finding a way of delivering those lines - so my worries of many months before I think had been justified. I found it a difficult way of being.
Rowan Atkinson