Rowan Atkinson Net Worth

Rowan Atkinson's Quotes

• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
• [commenting in 2004 on Britain's proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill] 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.
• 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. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common than 30-year-olds. As we grow up, we acquire this sensibility that divides us.
• I remember looking up Johnny English (2003) in a film guide and it said 'intermittently hilarious' - quite a good description of five good jokes and a lot of longueurs. I find it frustrating that, apart from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), I have yet to be involved in a film of which I am totally proud.
• The casual ease which some people move from finding something offensive to wishing to declare it criminal - and are then able to find factions within government to aid their ambitions - is truly depressing.

Interesting Facts about Rowan Atkinson

1. He is the father of a son, Benjamin Alexander Sebastian Atkinson (born 1993) and a daughter, Lily Grace Atkinson (aka Lily Atkinson) (born 1995), with his ex-wife Sunetra Sastry.
2. He rides go-karts round his tennis courts and, according to Stephen Fry (his best man), "hasn't got an ounce of showbiz in him".
3. He has an HGV license (Heavy Goods Vehicle - the old legal term in the United Kingdom for goods vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight).
4. He owns various fast cars (Aston Martin Vantages, etc.).
5. He writes articles for CAR (a British car magazine).
6. His education: Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK (electrical engineering); Oxford University, Oxford, UK (electrical engineering).
7. He races (and also crashes) his Aston Martins in the Aston Martins Owners club series.
8. He attended Cathedral Chorister School, Durham. So did British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was two years above him.
9. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1982 for the 1981 season.
10. He once crashed his McLaren F1, a supercar valued at more than $1,000,000, into the back of a stationary Mini Metro, valued at around $600. The damage was not severe.
11. He was one of the guests at Prince Charles' and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding.
12. He publicly opposed the British Labour government's plans in 2004 to introduce new legislation on incitement to religious hatred, arguing that it would undermine free speech and thought (even citing the possible development of mind-reading technology), and that such measures would make political satire - which he considers seminal in a democracy - unworkable.
13. Along with Tony Robinson and Tim McInnerny, he is one of only three actors to appear in all four "Blackadder" series: The Black Adder (1982), Blackadder II (1986), Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
14. He had to pull out of his role in a West End production of Oliver in April 2009 due to hernia surgery.
15. He owns a Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, which he used in the film Johnny English (2003).
16. He is the only actor to appear in every episode of Blackadder, Tony Robinson did not appear in the pilot.
17. On August 4, 2011 he was admitted to Peterborough City Hospital after crashing his McLaren Formula1 sports car. He suffered a light injury on his shoulder.
18. He has suffered with a stammer for many years, hence does not like giving interviews.
19. He attended Catherine Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William's wedding.
20. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Drama and to charity.