Rowan Atkinson Quotes

• 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?

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Atheism, Superstition

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feature, Easy

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

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  Tags in Critical, Films

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Timeless, Regarded

• 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.

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  Tags in Arrogance, Extraordinary

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Audience, Instincts

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Around, Seed

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

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  Tags in Physical, Consider

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

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  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.

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  Tags in Irrational, Criticize

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

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

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• But I always feel that whatever i do, i could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Perfectionism

• Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

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  Tags in Become, Lawyer

• Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

  Rowan Atkinson

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  Tags in Kind

• In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all – you just say he’s a spy and he’s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he’s not very good at his job.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Need

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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