105 Quotes by Rowan Atkinson

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!

Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.

I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it’s on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.

I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.