Confronting a stadium audience, you cant see the whites of their eyes. Its just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you cant see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. – 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. – 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. – Rowan Atkinson
Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person youd want to have dinner with. On the subject of Mr. Bean – Rowan Atkinson
I have had lots of friends whove been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. – Emma Thompson
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. – Lauryn Hill