"If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius."

“The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!”

“People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.”

“I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.”

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

“[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.”

“We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'”

Source : "Yvette Nicole Brown: Prep work is necessary for a successful stalk". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. July 8, 2010.

“Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer”

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.”

“The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.”