Rowan Atkinson Quotes

I'm better looking in person.

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

I don't think I'm boring.

I'm a fairly worldly guy.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

I like to think of myself as classy.

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

I'd always been the genius of the family.

We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

I don't look like who I am.

I'm a confident person. I just try to be me. I like to make people laugh, I am a comedienne - so if people find me sexy, that's awesome.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

Popularity means people think they know you.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.