The best Quotes by Rowan Atkinson

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.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

I've always had live audiences.

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

Something that has been important to me is never to repeat myself, never to go back.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

Lord Melchett: "Ah, Blackadder, talking to yourself, I see."
Blackadder: "Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."

Mrs M, if we were the last three humans on earth, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick.

They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head.

Baldrick, I want you to take this and go out and buy a turkey so large, you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.

Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me - and THIS pencil.

The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?

There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the Vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.

He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman competition.

Your brain is so minute Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn't be enough to cover a small water biscuit.

Pitt the Younger: "I intend to put my own brother up as a candidate against you."
Blackadder: "And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?"

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

It's our "white" responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media.

People spend more time talking than thinking.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

We think too much and feel too little.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.