105 Quotes by Rowan Atkinson

As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.

I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would like to do.

I loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.