Rowan Atkinson Video

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

For me real peace is lying on a river bank in summer with a sprig of grass in my mouth. I have friends who jet off to a luxury hotel. I think, 'How can you enjoy such ghastly luxury?'

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Of course drugs were fun.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.