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
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. Youve got to be careful. – Rowan Atkinson
But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive 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
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