Rowan Atkinson Quotes

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  What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Atheism, Superstition

• 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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Important

• 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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critical, Films

• It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feature, Easy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Around, Seed

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Audience, Instincts

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Arrogance, Extraordinary

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Timeless, Regarded

• I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Physical, Consider

• It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I have always worried about things more than I should.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Verbal

• 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.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irrational, Criticize

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance… has helped to determine your path through life.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quiet, Speaking

• You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Useful, Contest

Rowan Atkinson (37)

Birth:	6th January, 1955
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter

About

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line.

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