Comedy Quotes by Rowan Atkinson

10 Comedy quotes by Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson’s ten iconic jokes capture his physical comedy and dry wit in a tidy package. Perfect for a brief yet memorable dip into his legendary humor.

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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

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I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

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I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

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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…

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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this…

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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot…

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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting…

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I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always…

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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.…

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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

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A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar…

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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.

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To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That…

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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad.…

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“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a…

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance…

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