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
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
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
In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether its 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. – Rowan Atkinson