3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson 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.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it’s on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
