Rowan Atkinson Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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

  Character, Years, Done

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. July, 2003.

• 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

  Character, Timeless, Ageless

• The good thing about those original credit card commercials was that they were very "filmic", they were like little movies, so it wasn't a big step to think well maybe we could make a big movie using this character, which we eventually did.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Thinking, Cards

  Source: www.heyuguys.com

• I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Goodbye, Character, Wish

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• 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

  Character, Needs, Tvs

  "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 18, 2003.

• The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Optimistic, Character, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

• The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Couple, Character, Feet

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• [Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Nice, Character, People

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.heyuguys.com

• The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Men, Play

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Drama, Character, Keys

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like Blackadder, even though he's a relatively low key character in a way, he did relish the lines that he had and the words that he was given, with a lot of inflection.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Drama, Character, Keys

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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