Best Mr Bean Quotes on Life, Love, and Success (Rowan Atkinson Quotes)
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson popularly known as Mr. Bean was born on 6 January 1955 in Consett, United Kingdom
He is a popular actor, comedian and screenwriter best known across two world for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.
Atkinson was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest actors in British comedy, and among the top 50 comedians ever.
Here are some of the best motivational Mr Bean Quotes
“Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing” –Rowan Atkinson
“I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.”-Rowan Atkinson
“The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.”- Rowan Atkinson
“But I always feel that whatever I do, Could do better. Suppose it is perfectionism.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.” – Rowan Atkinson
“When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.” -Rowan Atkinson
“I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.” -Rowan Atkinson
“Have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. Do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.” – Rowan Atkinson
“The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.”- Rowan Atkinson
“I have always worried about things more than I should.” -Rowan Atkinson
“It’s the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.” – Rowan Atkinson
“Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.” -Rowan Atkinson
“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.”- Rowan Atkinson Quotes on Life
“Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.” – Rowan Atkinson Best Quotes
“Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.” – Rowan Atkinson Quotes
“But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.” – Rowan Atkinson
“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.”- Rowan Atkinson – Mr Bean Quotes
“Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that’s important to me.”- Rowan Atkinson
“No, I was only funny on stage, really. I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.” – Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean Quotes)
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.”- Mr Bean Quotes
“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.”- Rowan Atkinson
“I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.” – Rowan Atkinson
“You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.”- Rowan Atkinson
“I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character – a lead character – in a movie to not care about anybody else.” – Rowan Atkinson
“Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.”- Rowan Atkinson
“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.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I don’t much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it’s inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.” – Mr Bean Quotes
“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.” – Rowan Atkinson
“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.” – Rowan Atkinson
“In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all – you just say he’s a spy and he’s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he’s not very good at his job.” – Rowan Atkinson
“It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.”- Mr Bean Quotes
“I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.” – Rowan Atkinson
“Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.”- Rowan Atkinson
“It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.”- Rowan Atkinson
“I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.” – Rowan Atkinson
“There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you’re bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don’t.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother’s Morris Minor. I drove it around my father’s farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.”- Rowan Atkinson
“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.” – Rowan Atkinson
“I’m very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off – I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things.”- Best Mr Bean Quotes
