I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play. Rowan Atkinson More Quotes by Rowan Atkinson More Quotes From Rowan Atkinson To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform Rowan Atkinson successfulmindbeautiful I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else. Rowan Atkinson funny-menifsmen The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. Rowan Atkinson sarcasmsarcasticviews 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. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. Rowan Atkinson racereligiouslaw But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. Rowan Atkinson perfectionismfeels I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese. Rowan Atkinson wifemoneyfunny I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. Rowan Atkinson differentwantway The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. Rowan Atkinson happenstancedeterminepath The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression. Rowan Atkinson oppressionimportantviews Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute. Rowan Atkinson attitudelaughingart The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! Rowan Atkinson satanicdevilcows 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? Rowan Atkinson atheistteachingfear Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. Rowan Atkinson sarcasticmightfunny I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on. Rowan Atkinson upper-classgirldrinking You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. Rowan Atkinson sarcasticmenfunny 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 funny-thingsneedsthinking Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures. Rowan Atkinson careersreligiouschristian 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. Rowan Atkinson ambitionsimpleclever I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time. Rowan Atkinson down-andballsperiods I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious. Rowan Atkinson good-friendseriouslight
