105 Quotes by Rowan Atkinson

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.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

I 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.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

I think I am a creative person, but I'm slightly more kind of visionary... I prefer to guide writers, than to claim to be one of them.

We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with.

And that sort of reinforces to me that fact that he causes so much trouble, and never really pays a price for it, which I think he should.