List of atheists in film, radio, television and theater

This is a list of atheists in film, radio, television and theater. Included are living persons whose atheism is relevant to their notable activities or public life, and who have publicly identified themselves as atheists.

Film, radio, television and theater

Douglas Adams

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kevin Bacon

Luis Buñuel

Richard Burton

James Cameron

George Carlin

Stanley Donen

Sergei Eisenstein

Eva Green

Shenae Grimes

John Huston

Katharine Hepburn

Werner Herzog

Jamie Hyneman

Eddie Izzard

Derek Jarman

Penn Jillette

Keira Knightley

Stanley Kubrick

Burt Lancaster

Fritz Lang

Hugh Laurie

Seth MacFarlane

John Malkovich

Ian McKellen

Helen Mirren

Yasujirō Ozu

Brad Pitt

Adam Savage

George C. Scott

Ridley Scott

François Truffaut

Orson Welles

Gene Wilder

• Douglas Adams (1952–2001): British radio and television writer and novelist.^[1]
• Mary Adams (1898–1984): English producer and BBC television administrator.^[2]
• Phillip Adams (1939–): Australian broadcaster, writer, film-maker, left-wing radical thinker, and iconoclast. He was the Australian Humanist of the Year in 1987.^[3]
• Adithya (1974–): Indian actor.^[4]
• Joe Ahearne (1963–): British television writer and director.^[5]
• Brandy Alexandre (1964–): American adult actress.^[6]
• Keith Allen (1953–): British comedian, actor, singer and writer.^[7]
• Woody Allen (1935–): American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright.^[8]
• Robert Altman (1925–2006): American film director.^[9]
• Alejandro Amenábar (1972–): Spanish-Chilean film director.^[10]
• Wil Anderson (1974–): Australian comedian, radio presenter, and television host.^[11]
• Seth Andrews (1968–): American author and host of The Thinking Atheist radio podcast.^[12]
• Fred Armisen (1966–): American actor, comedian.^[13]
• Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007): Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.^[14]
• Jane Asher (1946–): English film and television actress.^[15]
• Kevin Bacon (1958–): American film and theater actor.^[16]
• Joan Bakewell CBE (1933–): English television presenter and journalist.^[17]
• Javier Bardem (1969–): Spanish actor and former rugby player.^[18]
• Pelin Batu (1978–):Turkish actress^[19]
• Andréa Beltrão (1963–) Brazilian actress, comedian and author.^[20]
• Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923): French stage actress. She was asked by French composer Charles Gounod if she ever prayed. Bernhadt replied "No, never. I'm an atheist".^[21]
• Paul Bettany (1971–): English actor.^[22]
• Orla Brady (1961–): Irish actress.^[23]
• Brannon Braga (1965–): American TV producer and writer.^[24]
• Robert Bresson (1901–1999): French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style.^[25][26]
• Jim Broadbent (1949–): English theatre, film, and television actor.^[27]
• Jeremy Brock (1959–): British actor, producer, writer, and director.^[28]
• Charlie Brooker (1971–): British writer and satirist best known for his TV show Screenwipe.^[29]
• Derren Brown (1971–): English psychological illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. Professed to being an atheist in his book Tricks of the Mind and described Bertrand Russell's collection of essays Why I Am Not a Christian "an absolute joy."
• Luis Buñuel (1900–1983): Spanish film-maker, activist of the surrealist movement. Known for his one-liner, "Thank God I'm an atheist."^[30]
• Richard Burton (1925–1984): Welsh actor.^[31]
• Kari Byron (1974–): American television host and artist.^[32][33]
• Peter Caffrey (1949–2008): Irish actor.^[34]
• James Cameron (1954–): Canadian film director.^[35]
• Richard Carleton (1943–2006): Current affairs journalist.^[36]
• George Carlin (1937–2008): American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author.^[37][38][39]
• Adam Carolla (1964–): American comedian, actor, author, radio host, and podcaster. Regularly refers to himself as an atheist.^[40][41]
• Jimmy Carr (1972–): English comedian, author, actor, and presenter of radio and television.^[42]
• Asia Carrera (1973–): Former American pornographic actress.^[43]
• Matthew Chapman (1950–): English journalist, screenwriter, and director.^[44]
• Jeremy Clarkson (1960–): English journalist and broadcaster.^[45]
• Scott Clifton (1984–): American soap opera actor.^[46]
• Billy Connolly (1942–): Scottish comedian, actor, former musician.^[47]
• Jim Cornette (1961–): American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker.^[48]
• Sir Noël Coward (1899–1973): English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music.^[49]
• Daniel Craig (1968–): English actor, well known for playing James Bond from 2006 to 2015.
• David Cronenberg (1943–): Canadian film director, one of the principal originators of the 'body horror' genre.^[50]
• Mackenzie Crook (1971–): English actor and comedian.^[51]
• David Cross (1964–): American actor, writer.^[52]
• Adrianne Curry (1982–): American model, television host, and film actress.^[53]
• John Davidson (1941–): American singer, actor, and game show host.^[54]
• Alan Davies (1966–): English comedian, writer, and actor.^[55]
• Russell T Davies (1963–): Welsh television producer and writer.^[56]
• Terence Davies (1945–): English screenwriter, film director, actor, and novelist.^[57]
• William B. Davis (1938–): Canadian actor.^[58]
• Guillermo del Toro (1964–): Mexican director and screenwriter.^[59]
• Andrew Denton (1960–): Australian comedian and television host.^[60]
• Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992): German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.^[61]
• Phyllis Diller (1917–2012): American actress and comedian.^[62]
• Stanley Donen (1924–): American film director.^[63]
• Natalie Dormer (1982–): English film and television actress.^[64]
• John Doyle (1953–): Australian comedian, actor, and writer.^[65]
• Christopher Eccleston (1964–): English stage, film, and television actor.^[66]
• David Edgar (1948–): British playwright.^[67]
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948): Soviet Russian film director and film theorist.^[68][69][70]
• Ben Elton (1959–): English comedian, writer and director.^[71][72]
• Frances Farmer (1913–1970): American film, television, and theater actress.^[73][74]
• Diane Farr (1969–): American actress.^[75]
• Harvey Fierstein (1952—): American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.^[76]
• Brian Flemming (1966–): American film director and playwright, notable for his 2005 film The God Who Wasn't There.^[77]
• Dave Foley (1963–): Canadian actor.^[78]
• Peter Fonda (1940–): American actor.^[79]
• Sir Denis Forman (1917–2013): British Director (1949–1954) and later Chair (1971–1973) of The British Film Institute, Chairman and Managing Director of Granada Television, and Director of the Royal Opera House in London.^[80]
• Jodie Foster (1962–): American film actress, director, and producer.^[81]
• Nick Frost (1972–): English actor, comedian, and writer.^[82]
• Stephen Fry (1957–): British humourist, writer, actor, and filmmaker.^[83][84]
• Ricky Gervais (1961–): British actor, film and TV director, screenwriter, producer, and comedian.^[85][86]
• Paul Giamatti (1967–): American film and television actor.^[87]
• Ira Glass (1959-): American radio personality and host of This American Life. He has stated that he is a staunch atheist.^[88]
• Theo van Gogh (1957–2004): Dutch film director, television producer, publicist, and actor, murdered following the broadcasting of his anti-Islamic film Submission.^[89]
• Bobcat Goldthwait (1962–): American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film and television director.^[90]
• Dan Gordon (1961–): Northern Irish actor, director and author. Calls himself agnostic.^[91]
• Richard E. Grant (1957–): British actor.^[92]
• Eva Green (1980–): French actress and model.^[93]
• Seth Green (1974–): American actor and comedian.^[94]
• Peter Greenaway, CBE (1942–): Welsh-born English film director.^[95]
• Sasha Grey (1988–): Former American pornographic actress.^[96]
• Kathy Griffin (1960–): American actress and comedian.^[97][98]
• Rachel Griffiths (1968–): Australian film and television actress.^[99]
• Shenae Grimes (1989–): Canadian actress.^[100]
• Kamal Haasan (1954–): Indian film actor and film director.^{[101][102][103]}
• Paul Haggis (1953–): Canadian born, American citizen screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners, 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 2005's Crash, the latter of which he also directed.^[104][105]
• Brian Hall (1937–1997): English actor.^[106]
• Tony Hancock (1924–1968): British actor and comedian.^[107]
• Sir David Hare (1947–): English dramatist and theatre and film director.^[108]
• Nina Hartley (1959–): American pornographic actress, film director, author, and sex educator.^[109]
• Amber Heard (1986–): American film and television actress.^[110]
• Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003): American actress.^[111]
• Werner Herzog (1942–): German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.^[112]
• Kenny Hotz (1973–): Canadian comedian, filmmaker, actor, producer, director and photographer.^[113]
• John Humphrys (1943–): Welsh journalist, author and radio and television presenter. Prefers the term agnostic.^[114][115]
• John Huston (1906–1987): American film director and actor.^[116]
• Jamie Hyneman (1956–): American visual effects expert.^[117]
• Eric Idle (1943–): British comedian.^[118]
• Eddie Izzard (1962–): British comedian.^[119][120]
• Clive James AM (1939–): Australian expatriate author, poet, critic, memoirist, travel writer, and cultural commentator.^[121]
• Derek Jarman (1942–1996): English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.^[122]
• Penn Jillette (1955–): American magician.^[123] He has also taken the Blasphemy Challenge.
• Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929–): Chilean-French filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru.^[124]
• Dom Joly (1967–): Award-winning British television comedian and journalist.^[125]
• Sarah Kane (1971–1999): English playwright.^[126]
• Skandar Keynes (1991–): English actor.^[127]
• Rajeev Khandelwal (1975–): Indian television actor.^[128]
• Margot Kidder (1948–): Canadian American film and television actress.^[129]
• Larry King (1933–): American radio and television host.^[130]
• Michael Kinsley (1951–): American political journalist, commentator, and television host.^[131]
• Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922–2007): Polish film director.^[132]
• Keira Knightley (1985–): English actress and model.^[133]
• Jan Kott (1914–2001): Polish theatre theoretician and critic.^[134]
• Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999): American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor whose films include 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.^[135]
• Burt Lancaster (1913–1994): American film actor.^[136]
• Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986): English-born American actress. Atheism is mentioned in her autobiography.^[137]
• John Landis (1950–): American film director.^[138]
• Fritz Lang (1890–1976): Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.^{[139][140][141]}
• Charles Laughton (1899–1962): English-born American actor. Atheism is mentioned in his wife's autobiography.^[137]
• Hugh Laurie OBE (1959–): English actor, comedian and writer.^[142]
• Nigella Lawson (1960–): English journalist, food writer, broadcaster, and television presenter.^[143]
• Bruce Lee (1940–1973): martial artist, actor and philosopher. John Little states that Lee was an atheist. When asked in 1972 what his religious affiliation was, Lee replied "none whatsoever."^[144][145] Also in 1972, when asked if he believed in God, he responded, "To be perfectly frank, I really do not."^[144][145]
• Tom Leykis (1956–): American radio talk-show host.^[146]
• Robert Llewellyn (1956-): English actor, TV presenter, comedian, and writer. Also a skeptic and science enthusiast, and has expressed that his major pseudoscientific irritations are astrology and climate change denial.^[147][148]
• Rebecca Lord (1973–): French pornographic actress.^[149]
• Kevin Macdonald (1967–): Scottish director.^[150]
• Seth MacFarlane (1973–): Creator, animator, executive producer, actor and writer.^[151][152]
• Bill Maher (1956–): American comedian, author, political satirist and television host.^[153][154]
• John Malkovich (1953–): American actor, producer, and director.^[155]
• Stephen Mangan (1972–): English actor.^[156]
• Paul Mazursky (1930–2014): American director, producer, and actor.^[157]
• Sylvester McCoy (1943–): Scottish actor.^[158]
• John McCririck (1940–): English television horse racing pundit.^[159]
• Ian McDiarmid (1944–): Scottish theatre actor and director.^[160]
• Sir Ian McKellen (1939–): English stage and screen actor.^[161]
• Butterfly McQueen (1911–1995): American actress.^[162]
• Stephen Merchant (1974–): British actor and writer.^[163][164]
• George Meyer (1956–): American television producer and writer.^[165]
• Dame Helen Mirren (1945–): English stage, television and film actress.^[166]
• Warren Mitchell (1926–2015): English actor.^[167]
• Julianne Moore (1960–): Actress.^[168][169]
• Dylan Moran (1971–): Irish comedian.^[170]
• Dermot Morgan (1952–1998): Irish comedian and actor.^[171][172]
• Sam Mulvey (1977–): Seattle-Tacoma radio personality. Host of "ask an atheist" radio program airing Sundays at 3 pm on KLAY 1180 am in Tacoma.
• Cillian Murphy (1976–): Irish stage and screen actor.^[173]
• Jonathan Myerson (1960–): British television and radio dramatist.^[174]
• Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1924-2014): Indian actor, producer, Padmavibhushan award recipient.^[175]
• Thandie Newton (1972–): English actress.^[176]
• Mike Nichols (1931–2014): American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer.^[177]
• Gaspar Noé (1963–): Argentinian-born French filmmaker.^[178]
• Dara Ó Briain (1972–): Irish comedian and television presenter.^[179]
• Patton Oswalt (1969–): American comedian and actor.^[180] In his standup special No Reason To Complain, he calls himself a "stone-cold atheist."
• Yasujirō Ozu (1903–1963): Japanese film director and script writer.^[181]
• Ellen Page (1987–): Canadian actress.^[182]
• Sir Michael Parkinson CBE (1935–): English broadcaster and journalist.^[183]
• Bruce Parry (1969–): English former Royal Marines instructor.^[184]
• Julia Pascal (1949–): British Jewish playwright and theatre director.^[185]
• Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975): Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual.
• Simon Pegg (1970–): English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and director.^[186]
• Sam Perrin (1901–1998): American screenwriter.^[187]

• Julia Phillips (1944–2002): film producer and author.^[188]
• Joaquin Phoenix (1974–): American film actor.^[189]
• Brad Pitt (1963–): American actor and producer, has stated that he does not believe in God, and that he is partly atheist, partly agnostic.^[190]
• Michael Pitt (1981–): American actor and musician.^[191]
• Roman Polanski (1933–): Polish director. Describes himself as an atheist in his autobiography.
• Sarah Polley (1979–): Canadian actress and director.^[192]
• Gail Porter (1971–): Scottish television presenter.^[193]
• Peter Purves (1939–): English actor and television presenter.^[194]
• Daniel Radcliffe (1989–): English actor.^[195]
• Carl Reiner (1922–): American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian.^[196]
• Rob Reiner (1947–): American actor, film director, producer, and political activist ^[197]
• Griff Rhys Jones (1953–): Welsh comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter.^[198][199]
• Anna Richardson (1971–): English presenter, television producer, writer, and journalist.^[200]
• Fyfe Robertson (1902–1987): Scottish television journalist.^[201]
• Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991): American screenwriter and producer.^[202]
• Richard Rodgers (1902–1979): American composer.^[203]
• Ray Romano (1957–): American actor, writer and stand-up comedian.^[204]
• Pascual Romero (1980–): American musician and television producer.^[205]
• Andy Rooney (1918–2011): Humorist, American radio and television writer.^[206]
• Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977): Italian film director and screenwriter.^[207]
• Douglas Rushkoff (1961-): American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, documentarian, and outspoken critic of religion.^[208]
• Adam Savage (1967–): American television co-host.^[209]
• Alan Scarfe (1937–): Canadian actor, director and novelist.^[210]
• George C. Scott (1927–1999): American stage and film actor, director, and producer.^[211]
• Ridley Scott (1937–): English film director and producer.^[212]
• Andy Serkis (1964–): English actor and director.^[213][214]
• Elyse Sewell (1982–): American fashion model.^[215]
• Léa Seydoux (1985–): French actress.^[216]
• Don Siegel (1912–1991): American film director and producer.^[217]
• Sarah Silverman (1970–): American comedian, writer and actress.^[218]
• Marc Sinden (1954–): English Theatre producer and actor.^[219]
• Tarsem Singh (1961–): Indian-American director.^[220]
• Ian Smith (1938–): Australian soap opera character actor and television scriptwriter.^[221]
• Matt Smith (1982–): English actor.^[222]
• Dan Snow (1978–): English television presenter and historian.^[223]
• Stellan Skarsgård (1951–): Swedish actor.^[224][225]
• Steven Soderbergh (1963–): American filmmaker, director.^[226]
• Todd Solondz (1959–): American screenwriter and independent film director.^[227]
• Doug Stanhope (1967–); American comedian.^[228]
• David Starkey CBE (1945–): English historian, television and radio presenter.^[229]
• Juliet Stevenson (1956–): English actress.^[230]
• Matt Stone (1971–), co-creator of South Park.^[231][232]
• J. Michael Straczynski (1954–): American writer and producer.^[233]
• Sir Alan Sugar (1947–): English entrepreneur, businessman, and television personality.^[234]
• Paul Taylor (1930–): American choreographer.^[235]
• Teller (1948–): American magician.^[236]
• Emma Thompson (1959–): English actress, comedian, and screenwriter.^[237]
• François Truffaut (1932–1984): French filmmaker and film critic.^[238][239]
• Wendy Turner Webster (1967–): English TV presenter and animal rights campaigner.^[240]
• Tom Tykwer (1965–): German film director.^[241]
• Brian Tyler (1978–): American film composer ^[242]
• Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980): British theatre critic and writer.^[243]
• Ram Gopal Varma (1962–): Indian film director, writer, and film producer.^[244]
• Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE (1908–1987): Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster.^[245]
• Paul Verhoeven (1938–): Dutch film director, screenwriter, and film producer.^[246]
• Paolo Villaggio (1932–): Italian actor, writer, director, and comedian.^[247]
• Joss Whedon (1964–): American screenwriter and director.^[248]
• Lalla Ward (1951–): English actress and illustrator.^[249]
• Orson Welles (1915-1985): American actor, director, writer, and producer.^[250]
• Peter White (1947–): English broadcast journalist and DJ.^[251]
• Gene Wilder (1933–2016): American actor.^[252]
• Robyn Williams (1944–): Australian science journalist and broadcaster.^[253]
• Ted Willis (1914–1992): British television dramatist, also politically active in support of the Labour Party.^[254]
• Terry Wogan KBE DL (1938–2016): Irish radio and television broadcaster.^[255]

Notes and references

1. "I am a radical Atheist..." Adams in an interview by American Atheists .
2. "She was a socialist, a romantic communist, and could charm with her charisma, spontaneity, and quick informed intelligence. She was a fervent atheist and advocate of humanism and common sense, accepting her stance without subjecting it to analysis." Sally Adams: 'Adams , Mary Grace Agnes (1898–1984)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed April 29, 2008).
3. In a letter by Adams dated August 10, 1993: "I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity [sic]".
4. "The Big Bang".
5. Interviewer: "Has researching subjects such as exorcism and possession forced you to challenge your belief system?" Ahearne: "No I'm a devout atheist and endlessly fascinated with the issue of faith in the impossible. It's true I bought a cross when we were shooting in Rome and I'm still wearing it. And it's true some of the actors had unnerving stories to tell during the shoot. My unfaith remains unshaken however. I need big miracles to make me believe. So far I've just been teased by the paranormal." Interview with writer, Joe Ahearne, BBC Press Office, 31 October 2008 (accessed 28 November 2008).
6. "I do not believe in God. There is too much science now that refutes the existence of a supreme creator, at least for me, and the miracles of old are easily explained today." Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
7. "One of the many reasons Allen made the documentary was to explore his own atheism. Unlike most non-believers, he claims, in all seriousness, to have once seen God. It was at Glastonbury during the 1980s, and (as is the case with most of the splendid anecdotes that litter his conversation), it involved enough mind-altering substances to stun a baby elephant. [...] Like any considered atheist, particularly one who will burn in Hell, he lives according to a moral code that refuses to romanticise things like love, or devotion." Guy Adams, Serious documentary maker? Is Keith Allen having a laugh?, The Independent June 21, 2007 (accessed April 25, 2008).
8. "Woody Allen Quotes - The Quotations Page".
9. "Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle-blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, "And I have been against all of these wars ever since." " Suzie Mackenzie interviewing Altman, 'Still up to mischief', The Guardian, May 1, 2004, Pg. 30.
10. " Though the crusaders in this film are actually Christian, Amenabar - who when pushed during the conversation Sunday said he was personally an atheist - said he had no particular present group in mind when making "Agora." " Brian Brooks, 'Amenabar: Not anti-Christian, but Crusading Against Fundamentalism with "Agora"', Indiewire.com, 18 May 2009 (accessed 26 May 2009).
11. "Of course, Anderson has never avoided controversy, but this show promises to be his most contentious yet. As an out-and-proud atheist, he's asking, "If the world truly does have an intelligent design, why is everything so f---ed?"—Lallo, Michael (April 5, 2007), Wil to Succeed, The Age, Fairfax Media. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
12. Prothero, Donald R (27 August 2014). "The Thinking Atheist Confesses". ESkeptic. The Skeptics Society. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
13. "HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher: Ep 242 March 23, 2012". HBO.
14. Tassone, 43.
15. "I don't believe in God. My sense of awe, wonder and utter insignificance comes from reading the New Scientist, rather than the Bible." Jane Asher interviewed by Allan Burnett, 'A Piece of My Mind', Sunday Herald, 25 January 2009, Magazine, Pg. 4.
16. "I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don't believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it's the end of our species." Wendy Ide interviewing Bacon, 'The Outsider Wants In', The Times (London), 1 December 2005, Features, Pg. 20
17. "What has stayed with me is the need for and love of ritual, the language of the authorised version of the Bible, the liturgy of the Anglican services, the beauty of its places of worship, the music and painting created to celebrate Christianity's central mystery. I think I remain to this day an unbelieving Anglican. None of this is rational, or particularly logical. It is how religion happens: a heap of childhood influence, a questing mind as the search begins, a failure to find new or surprising answers, a sound respect for the minds that once shaped doctrine and then the settling for a quiet and untroubled agnosticism. It is merely a timid temperament that inhibits me from declaring a bold, defiant atheism.
    Mine has been an outlook evolved from its time, growing from a particular period of history of absolutes and certainties. Everything shifted for devoutly held faith when schools began teaching comparative religion. From then on, the game was up. If each religion, it was now taught, has its own legitimacy, its own beliefs and concept of the divine, what is to say whether one is any better than another?" Joan Bakewell, 'Portrait: Just 70', The Guardian (London), February 20, 2004, G2: Guardian Features Pages, Pg. 7.
18. Hohenadel, Kristin (2001-03-04). "'Don't Call Me Actor,' says a Nominee for Best, Um...". The New York Times. pp. 2A.3. I don't believe in God,
19. "Pelin Batu: Kendimi Bildim Bileli Ateistim". Aktif Haber. 18 November 2012.
20. Andréa Beltrão tem 45 anos de vida, 30 de carreira, pouquíssimas rugas e uma grande família, dentro e fora de casa. Marie Claire, 2009. "A atriz, que há sete anos arranca gargalhadas como a cabeleireira Marilda de A grande família, é uma ateia convicta. 'Sou cética mesmo. Não acredito em nada. Só em mim e nas pessoas que amo', diz."
21. Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
22. "I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely." Paul Bettany, Bettany the Non-Believer, Movie & Entertainment News, WENN.com, May 10, 2006 (accessed June 10, 2008).
23. Brady had a Catholic upbringing but now considers herself an atheist. Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
24. "Every religion has a mythology". Sidmennt, the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association. August 16, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
25. Bert Cardullo (2009). The Films of Robert Bresson: A Casebook. Anthem Press. p. xiii. ISBN 9781843317968. A deeply devout man—one who paradoxically described himself as a “Christian atheist” — Bresson, in his attempt in a relatively timeless manner to address good and evil, redemption, the power of love and self-sacrifice, and other such subjects, may seem to us, and perhaps was, something of a retrogression.
26. James Quandt, Cinémathèque Ontario (1998). Robert Bresson. Cinemathèque Ontario. p. 411. ISBN 9780968296912. Around the time of 'Lancelot du Lac' (1974), Bresson was said to have declared himself "a Christian atheist."
27. "Does the prospect of his own inevitable death frighten him? 'I don't think it does. I don't fret about it. I think it was partly to do with seeing my father go. It didn't frighten him. Upset him a bit but not ... I think if you are an atheist, what's there to be frightened of? ... But I don't want to die yet.' " Nigel Farndale, 'The Heartbreak Kid: Jim Broadbent', Sunday Telegraph, September 23, 2007, Section 7, Pg.8.
28. " Nor does organised religion emerge with honour, and Brock says he has been an atheist for many years. "My father was an intelligent and articulate advocate for old-fashioned notions of kindness and liberalism, but in the end I just did not feel that loving him was a justification for believing in a whole theocratic system. Religion in certain circles has become increasingly exclusive and aggressive. Fundamentalist attitudes pervade, and that, in its most extreme form, means you can kill anybody you want to because they're an unbeliever." " A very British charmer, Daily Telegraph August 18, 2006 (accessed April 22, 2008).
29. "Yeah, that's right. I'm an atheist defending moderate Christians. Wanna make something of it?" . The Guardian August 23, 2008
30. "Father Julian... and I often talk about faith and the existence of God, but... he's forever coming up against the stone wall of my atheism..." Luis Buñuel (1982, 1985). My Last Breath: p.254.
31. Richard Burton (2012). Chris Williams, ed. The Richard Burton Diaries. Yale University Press. p. 252. ISBN 9780300192315. I wish I could believe in a God of some kind but I simply cannot.
32. Suicide Girls (March 30, 2011). "Interviews > Kari Byron". Retrieved 2011-03-30.
33. "Twitter".
34. "Born in Dublin in 1949, Caffrey enjoyed acting in school plays but subsequently went to a seminary for two years with a view to becoming a priest (he later played one in Coronation Street). He came out an atheist and studied English at University College, Dublin, before teaching at a primary school for a year." Anthony Hayward, 'Peter Caffrey; Padraig in 'Ballykissangel' ', The Independent (London), January 4, 2008, Obituaries, Pg. 42.
35. Rebecca Winters Keegan. The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron. p. 8. I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism.
36. Described as a "devout atheist" in Richard Carleton 1943-2006 - The death of a legendary journalist - The Bulletin, May 16, 2006.
37. George Carlin (2001). Napalm & Silly Putty. Hyperion. p. 254. ISBN 9780521842709. "And there is no God. None, not one, never was. No God. Sorry."
38. "No. No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability. It's certainly not a judgmental entity. It's certainly not paternalistic and all these qualities that have been attributed to God." Thompson, Thompson (Sep 6, 2000). "Is There a God?". The A.V. Club.
39. "That's because there is no Humpty-Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, never was. No God." George Carlin Show (1999). George Carlin: You Are All Diseased (DVD). MPI Home Video.
40. Carolla talks about atheism
41. Adam Carolla on Atheism. 5 February 2008 – via YouTube.
42. Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins, December 28, 2008
43. "So me, the completely unsuperstitious atheist, goes and posts on a message board that 'no, I don't believe in bad luck on Friday the 13th'." "Asia Carrera's official website, bulletin for July 13, 2006". Archived from the original on 2007-08-13. (archived August 29, 2007)
44. "I want Christians and other believers to watch The Ledge and see that atheists have a valid point of view," says Chapman. "There are a lot of us, we are thinking people, we care about many of the same issues as believers, and yet we are rarely heard and widely hated. I hope atheists who are still in the closet will take heart from the film and think, 'I am not alone.'" Press release for The Ledge" (accessed 11 July 2011).
45. Unhand my patio heater, archbishop, February 26, 2009
46. "In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over—and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it."
47. "Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!" Billy Connolly Live: Was It Something I Said?, 2007
48. "Jim Cornette fired back at Hulk Hogan/TNA".
49. Reviewing The Letters of Noel Coward edited by Barry Day, Simon Callow noted: "His unashamed patriotism galvanised the nation. One wonders whether these admirers would have laughed so heartily or wept so freely if they had thought that they were being entertained and moved by a homosexual atheist of the most militant kind. A letter to his mother on the early death of his brother out-Dawkinses Dawkins: "I'm saying several acid prayers to a fat contented God the Father in a dirty night gown who hates you and me and every living creature in the world." " The Guardian, December 15, 2007, Review pages, Pg. 7.
50. "Cronenberg's parents were atheists who encouraged him to experiment spiritually, convinced that sooner or later he'd find his own path to godlessness. And he did. This lack of belief, which became a belief system in itself, informs so much of his work: the primacy of the body, the finality of death, the lack of consolation. "It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing," he says, "a wish-fulfilment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously." " Simon Hattenstone interviewing Cronenberg, 'Gentleman's relish', The Guardian, October 6, 2007 (accessed June 9, 2008).
51. "I don't believe in life after death. I'm a staunch atheist and I know when I die that will be it, I'll just blink out of existence. It's not an incredibly comforting thought but I'm completely at peace with that idea and it just makes me appreciate this life all the more. It's almost a panic to get as much done and to have as much experience as possible." Mackenzie Crook interviewed by Teddy Jamieson, The Herald (Glasgow), April 19, 2008, Magazine, Pg. 12.
52. http://www.avclub.com/articles/david-cross,13617/ "He's coming at me with all this, saying that I'm a self-loathing Jew, and I said I was raised Jewish but I don't believe in God, I'm not Jewish, and I don't hold those beliefs." Accessed on 2009-08-24
53. "The argument continued in the next episode, when atheist Adrianne, commenting on the apartment's cleanliness, said, 'The Christians think they're better than everybody and they're holier than thou. But I clean up their messes all the time.'" God and Woman at America's Next Top Model, John Bowman]
54. "Entertainer John Davidson, a Preacher's Kid, Explains Why He No Longer Believes in God". Friendly Atheist.
55. "Why do people believe all this stuff, Stephen? (...) Bronze age mythology and they believe it all! (...) Why do they believe it all? Can't they just go: 'all that was mad. I thought it was true for a minute'" retrieved August 16, 2008
56. "As writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, Davies often plays with religious imagery (from a cross-shaped space station to robot angels with halos), but he's a fervent believer in [Richard] Dawkins. "He has brought atheism proudly out of the closet!" " Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord, The Independent, April 6, 2008 (accessed April 7, 2008)
57. "A fervently Roman Catholic child - he talks of his "dogged piety" and of "years wasted in useless prayer" - Davies has now embraced atheism with a born-again zeal." Wendy Ide, 'A regret-filled love letter to a changing city', The Times (London), May 20, 2008, Features, Pg. 23.
58. Interviewed by American Atheist "AA: You're a second generation Atheist. While in college, did you have a skeptical attitude toward the paranormal? Was it something you thought about at the time? DAVIS: I was always skeptical of ghosts, or aliens, or whatever it might be." American Atheist Interview with William B. Davis (accessed April 14, 2008)
59. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10441
60. "Gentleman, frankly I'm an atheist,..."Enough Rope', 25 July 2005.
61. "I have given up belief in a God." Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
62. "Roseanne Barr: 'Phyllis Diller was a genius'". Hollywood.com. August 22, 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012. Barr admits Diller never believed in God and she often joked about heaven.
63. Stephen M. Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies, Alfred A. Knopf: New York (1996), page 312.
64. "I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost, I’d be open to the experience." Tudors beauty: Nude scenes were harrowing (interview with Natalie Dormer
65. "Well, if humans are to develop as a species, we have to stand on our own two feet. If we do not do that, then we are destined to repeat the errors of history, we are destined to repeat the problems ... hhhh [sigh] ... we see emerging, the Zeitgeist that's blowing through on either sides of the divide at the moment. This is destined to repeat itself, unless we can evolve towards a secular, moral compass, that enables us to respect each other, and respect our ideas, and respect the accidental, biological genius of humankind, that has come about largely not through design, but through accident, and not to piss it up against the wall by demeaning ourselves into imagining that there is some divine master plan that gives the earth and gives the world 'sense'..., if we can accept that all we have is each other, that's all we have, then we may respect each other a little more. Impossible, utterly impossible, but you can only try, you can only try." The Songlines Conversations: John Doyle show transcript, 9 July 2006
66. "I'm an atheist. My mother is very religious, a churchgoer. She would often encourage me to go to church as well, but never forced it upon me, which I thought was quite decent of her. [...] There was no defining moment in which I decided there was no god for me, it was more of a growing process. I do feel that whatever religious beliefs I had as a child were foisted upon me. It's like when you ask where Grandma went when she died, and you'd be told that she went to heaven. I wouldn't necessarily view that as a bad thing, but it was stuff like that which I think hindered my intellectual development. Now that I've grown, I prefer a different interpretation." Christopher Eccleston, The Heaven and Earth Show, BBC1, Sunday April 3, 2005, 10:30.
67. "Earlier this year David Edgar wrote an unforgettable account of the death of his wife, Eve Cook, for a BBC radio talk during Easter week. An avowed atheist, Edgar said that he was trying to express 'that most human need to tell the dead what we would want to say - but know we couldn't say - if they were still alive'." Sean French, 'Dust to dustjacket', The Guardian, April 30, 1999, Pg. 18.
68. Mike O'Mahony (2008). Sergei Eisenstein. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861894496. For example, as a scientific materialist and self-confessed atheist, Eisenstein was a harsh critic of religion and spirituality, and yet religious rituals and biblical references permeate his works to such an extent that he was frequently criticized for excessive religious zeal by the Soviet censors.
69. Al LaValley (2001). Eisenstein at 100. Rutgers University Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780813529714. As a committed Marxist, Eisenstein outwardly turned his back on his Orthodox upbringing, and took pains in his memoirs to stress his atheism.
70. Sergei Eisenstein (1996). Richard Taylor, ed. Beyond the stars: the memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein, Volume 5. BFI Publishing. p. 414. ISBN 9780851704609. My atheism is like that of Anatole France -- inseparable from adoration of the visible forms of a cult.
71. "The comedian [...] said Britons should be taught the essentials of Christianity, if only for cultural reasons. But he also said that "lack of faith" should be taught in schools. "I think the concept that faith in itself is a good thing should be questioned from day one, which it isn't," he said. "There's a presumption that if you're a religious leader you are in some way already halfway up to the moral high ground and your opinion has more relevance than anyone else's." BBC 'too scared to allow jokes about Islam', April 2, 2008. (Accessed April 3, 2008)
72. "Elton described himself as an atheist but said he was in favour of God defined as "the mystery of the universe". His children attend a Church of England school and he said he attended church occasionally." BBC 'scared' of Islam jokes, says Elton, Guardian, April 2, 2008 (accessed April 3, 2008)
73. "I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was . . . nothingness.""Freethought of the Day". ffrf.com.
74. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4008
75. "For Lent, when I was younger, I gave up Happy Days. Now I'm an atheist."
76. McKinley, Jesse (2005-01-02). "Fierstein As Tevye: Sounds Crazy, No?". The New York Times. p. 2.5. I mean, I don't believe in God, I don't believe in heaven or hell, but I pray three or four times a day.
77. Interviewer: "At what point did you realize you were an atheist?" Flemming: "I kind of realized it gradually. At first it was like, OK, clearly fundamentalist Christianity is wrong, but Christianity is probably right. Then the more I actually thought about it, the more I deduced my way to atheism." Finding My Religion, SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle), February 13, 2006 (accessed April 14, 2008).
78. Celebrity Atheist List, excerpt from Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect, aired October 10, 2000
79. Fonda: "I'm an atheist..." Ben Foster and Peter Fonda Talk Westerns and 3:10 to Yuma, Rebecca Murray, About.com [Accessed 17 June 2010]
80. "The more significant was Granada's Adam Smith the following year, with Keir as a bereaved Church of Scotland minister seeking the meaning of life. Though written by Trevor Griffiths under a nom-de-plume, it owed much of its character to Sir Denis Forman, by this time Granada's chairman and himself a son of the manse - Adam was his father's first name. Sir Denis is also a convinced atheist, and the series, which at first went out on Sunday evenings as a religious offering, became so doubting that it had to be switched to an ordinary outlet." Philip Purser, 'Obituary: Andrew Keir', The Guardian, October 7, 1997, Pg. 14.
81. "Jodie Foster: Unbreakable". Entertainment Weekly. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2007-12-29. EW: Are you religious? JF: No, I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God.
82. "The Omen is one of my favorites. Even though I'm an atheist now, I was brought up Catholic and can remember thinking that it could actually be real!""Night Of The Laughing Dead: An Interview With Shaun Of The Dead Writer/Actor Simon Pegg And Co-Star Nick Frost". dvdverdict.com.
83. "I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook." Fry, Stephen (2004) [1997]. Moab is my washpot. Arrow books. p. 382. ISBN 978-0-09-945704-6.
84. "Sometimes belief means credulity, sometimes an expression of faith and hope which even the most sceptical atheist such as myself cannot but find inspiring." Stephen Fry, Spectator Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, reprinted as 'Would I live in America? In a heartbeat', The Spectator, 9 May 2009, Pg. 28.
85. Catherine Shoard (October 17, 2008). "Beyond the cringe". London: Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
86. Ricky Gervais (December 19, 2010). "A Holiday Message From Ricky Gervais: Why I'm an Atheist". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
87. "I never saw Russell lose it on set...". TotalFilm.com. 2006-02-08. I’m an atheist...
88. "394: Bait and Switch - This American Life".
89. "This book is called "Allah knows best" because it is my dark suspicion we are on the verge of the new Middle Ages of Mecca; and because I feel, as a professional atheist, very unsafe in a climate that is dominated by ambitious mayors who are happily busy "keeping things together". Since September 11, the knives are sharpened and the fifth column of goatfuckers marches ahead unhindered." Theo van Gogh, 'What they have said about Islam', in 'Netherlands braced for Muslim anger as politician releases 'anti-Islam' film', The Independent (London), January 25, 2008, Pg. 32.
90. "Syracuse Newspaper - Syracuse New Times".
91. " "I'm agnostic. I don't believe there is a God around, but if anybody else wants to believe and that does them good and keeps them right, then go for it. I would love to have that faith that some people have. I like the whole moral education and sense of community and friendship that churches have, but there's just too much badness in the world. I can't accept that whole thing of a benign God." Dan, who admits to being a workaholic, even wrote a play about his lack of faith. " Gail Edgar interviewing Gordon, 'I found a lump and thought, that's it the party's over', Belfast Telegraph, 26 October 2008 (accessed 25 March 2009).
92. "I don’t waste any time thinking about the beyond, reincarnation or whether or not we are transported to another realm. I try to live life from moment to moment. What happens next doesn’t occupy a single atom of thought... I took a comparative religion course when I was at university to get an overview, but it had no impact whatsoever. As far as I’m concerned, Darwin has come up with the best theory of how, when and why we are here — nothing else has convinced me otherwise.""Coming Out as Atheist: Richard E. Grant". secularism.org.uk.
93. "I have no religion. I wasn't raised that way, and I have nothing now" - Eva Green to Total Film magazine. December, 2007.
94. "Seth Green".
95. "My films show that I am a true atheist, although I always had the highest marks in Religious Education" retrieved January 15, 2008
96. SASHA GREY on Jesus Christ. 10 January 2010 – via YouTube.
97. She calls herself a "militant atheist," and she said while accepting her Emmy, "A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. So all I can say is suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now."
98. http://www.kathygriffin.net/Press/LAMag200506.php
99. "Although I'm not a Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning." Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
100. "'90210's' Shenae Grimes sometimes begs for spare change on the street - Zap2it". Blog.zap2it.com. 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
101. "[Kamal Haasan] is a self-professed rationalist, atheist, activist, and a follower of Periyar.""Kamal Haasan turns 51 on Monday, November 7". bollywoodsargam.com.
102. Kamal Haasan @ AVENUES '10 4.avi. 30 October 2010 – via YouTube.
103. Kamal Haasan's Rationalism. 12 November 2010 – via YouTube.
104. During Dan Rather's AXStv interview Haggis says he's an atheist. {{Intimate interview with Paul Haggis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-sKSEYPVc Published on May 27, 2015}}
105. Wright, Lawrence (February 12, 2011). "The Apostate". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
106. "I've never believed in God. If I've made a mistake and there is a God, I'll say: 'Sorry, Guv'nor, I never believed in you but I'm glad you're here. Can I come in?' If it's just The Big Sleep, that will be OK too - I've always enjoyed a nice kip." Brian Hall, quoted in Chris Hughes, 'Fawlty Towers Chef Dies of Cancer at 59', The Mirror (UK), 18 September 1997, Pg. 19.
107. Reviewing When the Wind Changed: The Life and Death of Tony Hancock by Cliff Goodwin, Michael Mellow wrote: "No diary is left unopened to reconstruct the complex life of a man whose public appearance was 'shabbily endearing' but who was privately a superstitious but philosophical atheist, prone to violence and depression. This is exhaustive, but never exhausting, with plenty of light relief in the form of transcribed interviews and sketches." The Observer, November 19, 2000, Review Pages, Pg. 14.
108. Reviewing Hare's collection Obedience, Struggle and Revolt, Nicholas Blincoe noted: "Hare's willingness to engage openly with traditions and institutions he respects can be heard in his speeches about Osborne and Williams, and in a speech to the Anglican Church, delivered at Westminster Abbey [...] the address to the Church is openly atheist." 'Turning his back on revolution', Daily Telegraph, August 6, 2005, Books section, Pg. 004.
109. "I believe strongly in the heritage of Jews as educators. I feel very proud of the fact that if it weren't for the Jews, half the world would still be illiterate. I would like to know about Jewish religion as history, but as an atheist, I see no reason to practice any religion... because it is organized superstition... the opiate of the masses." Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
110. "But this Austin high school dropout (who went on to get a diploma through a home-study program) soon reveals herself to be a well-read young woman who despises television and declared herself an atheist after losing her best friend in a car crash." Amber Heard will be heard
111. Hepburn stated "I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people" in the October 1991 issue of Ladies' Home Journal
112. "Herzog is an avowed atheist, but in a certain sense his films, especially in recent years, have become highly spiritual in focus. Thanks to its subject and its characters “Into the Abyss” is suffused with a Christian religiosity that the director treats with great respect." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com, November 11, 2011.
113. "My parents are Jewish, but I don’t really care about it. I’m pretty well atheist, I guess.""'Jesus sucks,' TV duo's banner tells Toronto". nationalpost.com.
114. " Perhaps it is having to listen to Thought for the Day on the Today programme every morning, but John Humphrys, an atheist, appears to be having doubts about his doubts. "I know that I don't believe in God," he says. "I might, however, wake up tomorrow morning and find a shimmering figure in the corner of my bedroom calling me to Jesus." Tim Walker, 'Doubting John', The Daily Telegraph (London), 31 January 2009, News, Mandrake, Pg. 10.
115. "I don't believe in God, but I don't believe either that the whole thing is just a bizarre accident. Or at least, if it is, something has to explain our spirituality, which clearly does exist." Humphrys interviewed by Kay Parris, On death and doubting, Reform, February 2009 (accessed 25 March 2009).
116. "That character had such a weird internal life." What help could Huston give you? "Not much. I was on my own there. I think Huston was baffled by the script, which was very Catholic, whereas he was a devout atheist." Brad Dourif interviewed by Ryan Gilbey, 'How Weird is Brad?', The Independent (London), December 20, 2002, Features, Pg. 12.
117. On December 12, 2006, in an interview on Skepticality, the official podcast of Skeptic, Hyneman said, "[A]ctually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it."
118. "Eric Idle".
119. "I was warming the material up in New York, where one night, literally on stage, I realised I didn’t believe in God at all...I just didn’t think there was anyone upstairs." from Armstrong, Stephen (2009-02-08). "Eddie Izzard: Hollywood to House of Commons?". timesonline.co.uk. London: The Times. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
120. "I don't believe in a god." — Izzard to NPR interviewer Steve Inskeep, 28 April 2014.
121. Talking to Richard Dawkins, James said: "... and it leaves you feeling good, which I suppose is something that religions have always tried to do. Let me get into that now, because, I'm an atheist myself, but it's not something that I would make a point of, because to me it seems perfectly obvious. But it didn't seem obvious to the man who was in charge of the Kogarah Presbyterian Church when I was in the Bible class, and when he found out that I had become an atheist he thought I was condemning myself and my family to the flames, he reacted very badly, but it just did seem to me very clear." Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Clive James, Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2008.
122. "To those familiar with his other films, Jarman reinforces his atheism and contempt for traditional Christianity, thereby re-emphasizing the point he just made - that "paradise" is "terrestrial" and is the fruit of human love." William Pencak, The Films of Derek Jarman, page 159.
123. Interview with Penn Jillette. in which he mentions his and Teller's atheism.
124. "However, while Buñuel’s attacks on religion are primarily confined to Catholicism, Jodorowsky not only violates but de-centres Western religious traditions by creating a hybrid amalgamation of Western, non-Western and occult beliefs. A self-described “atheist mystic”, he has claimed to hate religion (for it “is killing the planet”), but he loves mysticism and occult practices like alchemy." David Church, Senses of Cinema, February 13, 2007.
125. On the introduction by his children of a swearbox to his household, Joly wrote: "Our biggest area of contention at home is blasphemy. Jackson follows me round the house waiting for me to say "oh Jesus" or "for God's sake", two of my favourite expressions. I tried to get a ruling excluding these from punishment, on the grounds that I'm an atheist and don't consider them to be swear words." Dom Joly: It's 50p a swear word... and the pot stands at £75, The Independent, April 20, 2008 (accessed April 21, 2008).
126. "Sarah became an atheist, her writing fired by the cruelties carried out in the name of God. "God, the bastard," was one of her favourite Beckett quotes. "I think she looked at the world around her, and thought it was unsustainable to think there is an all-powerful, all-caring God who made the world as it is," says Simon [Kane, her brother]." Simon Hattenstone, 'A Sad Hurrah', The Guardian, July 1, 2000, Pg. 26.
127. "28.Do you have a religion and if so what is it? I am an Atheist. I know the film's really Christian and everything but it doesn’t really affect me. Oh and you know I’m related to Charles Darwin."
128. "I love to call myself an atheist. By atheist, I don't mean I would stand up and start delivering speeches on the non-existence of God. I am the kind of person who doesn't like wasting time on visiting religious places or performing rituals. They don't help me in any way." Rajeev Khandelwal, 'I Am', The Times of India, 10 Jun 2008 (accessed June 10, 2008).
129. "Once I stayed up for three weeks in a row because I felt I was called upon to write a new religion for women. I was reading all these books, including the Bible... and I'm an atheist." Allen Smith, Warren (2002). Celebrities in Hell: A Guide to Hollywood's Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Free Thinkers, and More. Barricade Books Inc. p. 130. ISBN 1-56980-214-9.
130. "My biggest fear is death, because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief ... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere."
131. "Although Hitchens’s title refers to God, his real energy is in the subtitle: “religion poisons everything.” Disproving the existence of God (at least to his own satisfaction and, frankly, to mine) is just the beginning for Hitchens..."—Kinsley, Michael (May 13, 2007). "In God, Distrust". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
132. "Kawalerowicz, a professed atheist, had no interest in demonology per se, only as a symbol of repressed sexuality and of the power of authority, be it the Roman Catholic Church or - though it is never spelt out - Communism." 'Obituary of Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish director of 'Mother Joan of the Angels' who fell out with his fellow film-makers over the Solidarity movement', Daily Telegraph, January 1, 2008, Pg. 23.
133. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/kiera-knightley#page5 Interview Magazine.
134. "Arguably the world's most influential theatre critic, Jan Kott was a man of glittering contradictions - Don Juan and globetrotter, atheist and Jew, anarchist and Communist - and a controversially brilliant polemicist. Fascinated by the dark side of the psyche, he adhered consistently to his own brand of enlightened rationalism, studying Jacques Maritain and the Thomists, and empathising with André Breton and Surrealism." Nina Taylor-Terlecka, 'Obituary: Jan Kott, The Independent (London), January 9, 2002, Pg. 6.
135. "The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, 2001 shows that what some people call "god" is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call "god"... Everything we know about the universe reveals that there is no god. I chose to do Dr. [Arthur C.] Clarke's story as a film because it highlights a critical factor necessary for human evolution; that is, beyond our present condition. This film is a rejection of the notion that there is a god; isn't that obvious?" Smith, Warren (2010). Celebrities in Hell. ChelCbooks, pg. 68
136. "A self-described atheist, Lancaster had turned down the role in the remake of Ben-Hur (1959) played by Charlton Heston, but followed in Heston's footsteps when he played the title role in Moses the Lawgiver [...]. When a reporter asked him if he was following in Heston's sandal-clad steps, Lancaster replied, "If Charlton was trapped in Biblical films, it was his own fault - he accepted the limitation." Though Lancaster claimed he was an atheist, some of his friends doubted him." Biography for Burt Lancaster, The Internet Movie Database (accessed June 9, 2008).
137. Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton and I, (Harcourt, Brace, 1938)
138. Famed filmmaker John Landis brought the world "An American Werewolf in Paris" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller," but nothing scares him more than people. In this video the avowed atheist, tells CNN's Nima Elbagir why he thinks “we make stuff up” about monsters, religion, and the devil.
139. Tom Gunning, British Film Institute (2000). The films of Fritz Lang: allegories of vision and modernity. British Film Institute. p. 7. ISBN 9780851707426. Lang, however, immediately cautions Prokosh, 'Jerry, don't forget, the gods have not created men, man has created the gods.' This is more than a simple statement of Feuerbach-like humanism or atheism.
140. Patrick Mcgilligan (1998). Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast. St. Martin's Press. p. 477. ISBN 9780312194543. In the final years of his life, Lang had written, in German, a 20- to 30-page short story called "The Wandering Jew." It was "a kind of fable about a Wandering Jew," according to Pierre Rissient. After Lang's death, Rissient asked Latte [Fritz Lang's third wife] if he might arrange for its publication. "No," she replied, "because Fritz would want to be known as an atheist."
141. Mark Kermode (2013). Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics. Pan Macmillan. pp. 25–26. ISBN 9781447230526. The Austrian-born film-maker Fritz Lang once commented that, although he was an atheist, he supported religious education because 'if you do not teach religion, how can you teach ethics?'
142. "I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he’d take it away. So he'll be like: 'You think this is going pretty well?' Then he'll go and send down some big disaster." Stargazing: Heather's angry, Jane is ill, Hugh is anxious, Kansas City Star, Wed, Oct. 31, 2007 (accessed November 1, 2007). Archived November 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
143. "I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so. More: I'm offended. And one is constantly being told how offensive is a lack of faith to believers." Nigella Lawson, 'We atheists know right from wrong', The Times, June 26, 1996, Features section.
144. Little, John (1996). The Warrior Within - The philosophies of Bruce Lee to better understand the world around you and achieve a rewarding life. Contemporary Books. p. 128. ISBN 0-8092-3194-8.
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149. "Rebecca Lord (interview), La Cochonne (website), 2004. (French)
150. "An atheist himself, Macdonald describes Touching the Void as a religious film in a post-religious age. 'It is about realising there is nothing but the void. Uncaring nature. Emptiness.' " Nigel Farndale interviewing Kevin Macdonald, Sunday Telegraph, January 7, 2007, Section 7, Pg. 18.
151. "I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky' " - Seth MacFarlane to Steppin' Out magazine. October 18, 2007 Archived February 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
152. Voss, Brandon (2008-02-28). "Big Gay Following: Seth MacFarlane". The Advocate. Planet Out, Incorporated. Retrieved 2008-02-03. ...I'm an atheist...
153. On a November 1, 2009 airing of Imus in the Morning when asked by Don Imus about rumors of marriage, Maher: "I said, well, tell them the truth, neither me nor my girl believe in God or marriage, so there is not going to be a big church wedding." When asked whether he thought Christopher Hitchens was a 7 on Dawkins' scale of 1–7 (1 being absolutely certain there is a God and 7 being absolutely certain there isn't, a scale on which Dawkins considers himself 6.9), Maher answered with: "He may be, I think we are all just talking semantics at some point, we are all atheists which means we don't believe in the deity, we don't believe in a magic spaceman, and that we think people who do, have a neurological disorder and they need help."
154. "I'm an atheist". PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT: Interview with Bill Maher, 3 March 2012
155. "I'm an atheist." John Malkovich The Age interview (Australia), April 25, 2003, Magazine.
156. "4thought.tv". Channel 4.
157. Farber, Stephen (2006-12-31). "A Night in Hollywood, a Day in Ukraine". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-31. I’ve always felt very Jewish but very ambivalent about being Jewish. I’m an atheist.
158. So you believed in God back then? "I did, yeah" And do you now? "No, I think it's awful", Doctor Who Magazine, August 19, 2010.
159. "I don't want a church service or anything or any mourners. I don't believe in God - that's a load of nonsense because people can't accept that there is no life after death. [...] "Religion and God is just all a big fairy tale made up to try to control people. If you actually look at all the big problems and wars and terrible things that have happened in the world they have been down to people believing in God and thinking their way is the only way. I blame these religious schools for brainwashing people into believing their way is the only way. All schools should be mixed and that way you get rid of the ignorance and prejudice from a young age." McCririck interviewed by Paul Martin, The Mirror (Éire Edition), 7 March 2009, Pg. 16.
160. " Time for some quick-fire questions, I say. Are you religious? "No, I'm an atheist." Is religion a positive or negative force in the world? "I hate that as a glib question. It's much more complicated than that. " When did you last think about mortality? "This morning." " Teddy Jamieson interviewing McDiarmid, 'Return of the emperor', The Herald (Glasgow), 3 January 2009, Arts Books Cinema, Pg. 2.
161. "I was brought up a Christian, low church, and I like the community of churchgoing. That's rather been replaced for me by the community of people I work with. I like a sense of family, of people working together. But I'm an atheist. So God, if She exists, isn't really a part of my life." - from a January 19, 1996 profile by Tim Appelo found in Mr. Showbiz.
162. "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion." A lifelong atheist, she donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.
163. "No, I don't believe in God" "Series 1, Episode 2". The Ricky Gervais Show. 2005-12-12.
164. "I've been reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. It's his polemic against religion and even for an avowed atheist like myself, it's quite strong." "Office Boy", Q, May 2007 |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
165. "As I was saying before, it was so hard for me to be a Catholic. It wound my spring almost to the breaking point. The spring is still uncoiling from those early years. I'm a thoroughly virulent atheist."September 2004 Interview in The Believer
166. "Sometimes I feel like a farmer during a war, someone who doesn't know very much about it and carries on digging, hoping for rain. But just the last few days I've had this terrible feeling of... doom. It's a, er, biblical, kind of Old Testament feeling. I'm an atheist, but I was suddenly thinking of those stories of the flood and punishment. Because we've become unbelievably greedy and destructive." Helen Mirren interviewed by Simon Garfield, The Independent (London), November 25, 1990, The Sunday Review Pages, Pg 27.
167. " No kosher food, but he [Warren Mitchell] feels Jewish. "I can't define it, I just am." It is not spiritual. "I am an atheist, thank God," he quips. " The pride of prejudice, Scotland on Sunday, October 10, 2004 (accessed April 22, 2008).
168. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Tflh4yK36DM#t=3m45s - When Julianne Moore was asked what she would like to hear God say after reaching heaven, she replied, "Well, I guess you were wrong, I do exist."
169. Stephen Galloway (28 January 2015). "Julianne Moore Believes in Therapy, Not God (And Definitely Gun Control)". The Hollywood Reporter.
170. Moran says in the video of his live show Monster: "To me religion seems like a bunch of people talking to their imaginary friend." Quoted in the IMDB entry for Monster.
171. "Craggy Island would soak up the irony. From beyond the grave, Dermot Morgan, a staunch atheist who savaged the Catholic Church, is delivering a final kick to the priests who gave him a hero's send-off." Rory Carroll, 'Catholic critic Father Ted still causing controversy', The Guardian, April 23, 1998, Pg. 4.
172. "Father Ted is dead".
173. Interviewer: "You said that your experiences on Sunshine, and particularly the time you spent with the scientists turned you from an agnostic to an atheist – what changed your perception?" Murphy: "I did a lot of reading, I spoke to those guys a lot, and I was always an agnostic, which I think is a very safe place to be in terms of your faith or lack of... It just seems to me to be irrational that there’s an omnipotent, omnipresent being who was there at the beginning, and will be there forever, it’s not logical, it doesn’t help me as a person..." April 2007 interview in Total Film (Accessed November 20, 2007)
174. "The Miracle Maker didn't have songs or animals (give or take the fishes with the loaves), wasn't playschool Plasticene, and told a serene, grave and majestic version of Christ's life. Animated with latex puppets (by a Moscow studio), this was the most credible Jesus I have ever seen. Why? Because I hadn't seen him before. He wasn't that actor I had seen last week in a Lynda La Plante, nor was he in a Bond movie before that. Yes, he had Ralph Fiennes' voice but few would recognise it. And when he fell to his knees in Gethsemane, I (diehard atheist) was there, this was Him, an unadulterated Messiah, unmodified by anything else creeping into my response. It was pure." Jonathan Myerson, 'How to bring poetry to motion', The Independent (London), April 10, 2001, Features, Pg. 12.
175. Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
176. "Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself". Ted.com. July 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
177. "On the March 21, 2001 broadcast of Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviewed Nichols about his then-new film Wit based on the Pulitzer-prize winning play of the same name. He identified himself as a 'negative atheist' and said (paraphrased by the contributor) "I never consider what comes after this life, I have no interest in heaven, hell, god, etc..."
178. "Questioned about the spiritual content of the film, Noe told a press conference he was a hard-and-fast atheist, but was drawn by the challenge of representing a spiritual journey in images." Emma Charlton, 'Tokyo trips join Cannes line-up', Agence France Presse -- English, 23 May 2009.
179. "I’m staunchly atheist, I simply don’t believe in God. But I’m still Catholic, of course. Catholicism has a much broader reach than just the religion. I’m ethnically Catholic, it’s the box you have to tick on the census form: ‘Don’t believe in God, but I do still hate Rangers.’" retrieved August 11, 2008
180. Koski, Genevieve (August 31, 2011). "Interview: Patton Oswalt". The A.V. Club. Onion Inc. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
181. Nicoletta Asciuto (Nov 18, 2011). "Something Sacred: Yasujiro Ozu's Cinema". The Bubble. Retrieved 12 September 2012. Ozu’s cinema was thus something nearly heavenly for Wenders, something sacred that must be neither confused nor mingled with religion though – Ozu himself was essentially an atheist and there was little, if any, religion in his films: even his tombstone bears no epigraph, save only for an ancient Chinese character signifying ‘Nothingness’, (‘mu’).
182. Daniel D'Addario, "Ellen Page on Freeheld and Why She Came Out: ‘I Was Just Depressed’," Time, 27 August 2015.
183. "I don't believe in God, but I pray like everybody else. Silly, isn't it? I used to pray that I would do a good interview, that the children would be looked after. It's a way of reaffirming the subconscious desire that things are going to be all right. I don't see the incompatibility." Michael Parkinson, 'This much I know', The Observer, 17 May 2009
184. "Newly tolerant Parry is a "post-Deist" - "basically I'm an atheist but reluctant to admit it." Cassandra Jardine interviewing Bruce Parry, Daily Telegraph, September 19, 2007, Features, Pg. 25.
185. "Islam as we are experiencing it in the west at the moment is having difficulties examining areas of criticism. All religions should face criticism. As an atheist, I believe it is a healthy society that does criticise religions. What happened to Salman Rushdie was absolutely shameful. It takes us back to the middle ages." Julia Pascal, interviewed for the article 'Sikh theatre row: Can censorship ever be justified?', The Guardian, December 22, 2004, Pg. 7.
186. Twitter Simon Pegg's Twitter Feed
187. "On The Burns and Allen Show, he [George Balzer] was paired with the more experienced scripter Sam Perrin. The two writers were a natural team, despite the fact that Balzer was a devout Catholic and Perrin a Jewish atheist." Dick Vosburgh, 'George Balzer: Veteran comedy writer', The Independent (London), November 4, 2006, Obituaries, Pg. 44.
188. "Both her parents came from Russian Jewish backgrounds, but Julia was brought up as an atheist and an avid reader in Brooklyn, before the family moved, first to Great Neck, Long Island, and then to Milwaukee." Obituary of Julia Phillips, Daily Telegraph, January 4, 2002, Pg. 25.
189. Jonathan C. Criswell (2011). The Wit and Blasphemy of Atheists: 500 Greatest Quips and Quotes from Freethinkers, Non-Believers and the Happily Damned. Ulysses Press. p. 30. ISBN 9781569759011. I don't believe in god. I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in soul. I don't believe in anything. I think it's totally right for people to have their own beliefs if it makes them happy, but to me it's a pretty preposterous idea. - Joaquin Phoenix
190. "BILD: Do you believe in God? Brad Pitt (smiling): 'No, no, no!' BILD: Is your soul spiritual? Brad Pitt: 'No, no, no! I’m probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.'" Brad Pitt interview: "With six kids each morning it is about surviving!" By Norbert Körzdörfer, Bild.com, 23 July 2009
191. "Does Pitt think suicide is selfish? 'I see why people think it is, and sometimes I do. And sometimes I don't think it's selfish. I'm probably an atheist, though I was raised a Catholic " and that whole religion is based on the first suicide, in many ways.'" Roger Clarke interviewing Pitt, 'Film: Nearly Nirvana', The Independent (London), August 26, 2005, Features, Pg. 8-9.
192. "When asked what directors she admires, Polley talks about Ingmar Bergman and Terrence Malick (she says his Thin Red Line "single-handedly brought me out of a deep depression. It shifted something in me. I'm an atheist, but it was the first time that it gave me faith in other people's faith")." Woman on the Verge by Mark Pupo, Toronto Life Magazine, October 2006.
193. "I wear a crucifix that cost a tenner. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in fancy jewellery either." Gail Porter, 'This much I know', The Observer, 19 March 2006, Observer Magazine, Pg. 10.
194. "Religion makes me angry but I don't get overheated about it but I really dislike it and am a confirmed atheist and I believe most of the world's troubles are caused by people who have some abounding faith in some stupid superstition. It also makes me sad and depresses me immensely that people can be so stupid. Defending this, that and the other based on total myths and nonsense." Peter Purves, interviewed by 'Digger'.
195. "I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do." by Anita Singh, Telegraph.co.uk, July 2009.
196. "I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody." Carl Reiner interviewed by Tom Tugend, 'No Joke: Carl and Rob Reiner Honored by Israeli Film Festival', San Francisco Sentinel, June 17, 2008 (accessed June 17, 2008).
197. "We're not equal? How are we not equal?" Rob Reiner on Real Time with Bill Maher, in response to Maher's statement, "I would argue atheists are [not considered equal under the law]". Maher then stated, "For a group that is about 17 percent now... no representation in congress..." to which Reiner replied, "You're right about that- that we don't have that representation. I include myself in that same 17 percent...." "Real Time with Bill Maher".
198. "[...] Semi-Detached [...] also shows Jones to be an emotional hoarder; a pragmatic atheist, who thinks little of the passage of time and scorns himself out of unhappiness, but who is still ashamed for misleading a girl 30 years earlier." Will Cohu, reviewing Semi-Detached by Griff Rhys Jones, Daily Telegraph, November 18, 2006, Books, Pg. 30.
199. "I read the whole of the Chronicles of Narnia when I was little and I grew up an atheist. My problem, I realise, was that I just didn't believe in Aslan." Griff Rhys Jones, 'Darling how thoughtful: a voucher for buttock reshaping', Sunday Telegraph, December 11, 2005, Features section, Pg.19.
200. Asked by interviewer Laura Deeley: "Do you find any solace in anything religious or spiritual?" Richardson replied: "My mother is an RE teacher and my dad is a canon. But, no, I'm not religious myself. I don't believe in God; more in a creative force." 'Try this for size', The Times (London), 3 January 2009, Body & Soul, Pg. 23.
201. "An atheist, despite his upbringing, he described himself as a humanist radical." Anne Pimlott Baker, 'Robertson, Fyfe (1902–1987)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed May 2, 2008).
202. "Strikingly, there is no religious or mystical dimension to the "Star Trek" universe at all, at least until much later in its development. (Roddenberry regarded himself as an "agnostic atheist," and banned any religious references from the show.)" Andrew O'Hehir, 'Why the original "Star Trek" still matters', Salon.com, May 13, 2009 (accessed 26 May 2009). See also 'Gene Roddenberry', Humanist Mar/Apr91, Vol. 51 Issue 2, p5-38.
203. "Richard became an atheist, and as a parent he resisted religious instruction for his children." Richard Rodgers By WILLIAM G. HYLAND Yale University Press
204. "Ray Romano on Actors Studio interview.". June 19, 2005. Retrieved 8 June 2012. James Lipton: "If Heaven exists, "Ray" What would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Ray Romano: "My son, I saw what you did In the garage, and you're still welcomed here" (Laughter) "See you were wrong, I do exist."
205. "Demanding evidence will always be more rewarding than asserting truth."
206. YouTube.
207. Article in Italian
208. "Douglas Rushkoff :: Articles, Columns, Features and Essays". Rushkoff.
209. Interview with Penn Jillette in which he mentions his atheism. (Podcast episode dated 2007.03.01.)
210. "Gilles Nuytens: What aspects of your personality do you share with this character and what aspects of him are completely unlike you? Alan Scarfe: I’d like to think I shared his compassion and intelligence. But the character was a Catholic priest and I am a life-long atheist." Interview with The Sci-Fi World
211. Ian Curtis (2006). "Appendix". Jesus: Myth Or Reality?. iUniverse. p. 293. ISBN 9780595397648. George C. Scott, American Actor (1927-1999). - During an interview on 60 Minutes, shortly before his death, Scott said he did not believe in God at all.
212. Sternbergh, Adam (25 October 2013). "Ridley Scott: 'Most Novelists Are Desperate to Do What I Do'". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
213. "Serkis has been an atheist since his teens [...]" Catherine Shoard, 'Beastie Boy', The Sunday Telegraph March 16, 2008, Section 7, pg.22.
214. "Yes, I am an atheist. [...] In terms of spirituality, I don't want to ram any of my belief systems down my children's throats. What we both say to them is "This is what some people believe, this is what other people believe," and again, allow them to make their own decisions. Absolutism in anything is death. I hope to keep things as open for them as possible, so they question things and examine things for themselves." Andy Serkis, 5-Minute Time Out: Andy Serkis, 30 January 2009 (accessed 6 March 2009).
215. "I'm just not interested in having quiet time to read my bible. I am a militant atheist." God and Woman at America's Next Top Model, John Bowman]
216. Paola Genone (31 August 2011). "Léa Seydoux: "je suis une femme virile"" (in French). L'Express. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
217. "His first chance came in 1944, when after a long period of feuding with Warner, Warner offered him a short. Siegel himself is a Jewish-born atheist. "I wondered what I could do which would most annoy Warner as a Jew; and decided on a present-day retelling of the story of the nativity. To my surprise he liked the idea, and it was a big success. So then I wondered what else I could do which would irritate him and tried something quite different, which was Hitler Lives." David Robinson, 'Don Siegel's stories', The Times, May 1, 1975; pg. 11; Issue 59384; col E.
218. In an interview with Elvis Mitchell aired November 16, 2005 on KCRW, Silverman says she is "almost positive there's no god" when speaking of reactions to her 'Jesus is Magic' catch-phrase that was printed on a t-shirt. In Kate Fillion in MacLean's (Canada's weekly news magazine), dated 22 October 2007, page 14 in reply to "Are you an observant Jew?" Silverman answered "Nope. I have no religion. I'm only Jewish ethnically. Culturally."
219. Debrett's People of Today (2009)
220. "Tarsem Singh on 'Immortals' and 'Mirror, Mirror': The outspoken atheist explains why he made a movie about faith, gives details about his Snow White movie Mirror, Mirror, describes his original ending to Immortals and explains all the crazy hats.
221. " Ian himself is the longest-serving member of the cast, and fans are often shocked when they meet him, expecting him to be an old fuddy duddy like his famous alter ego. "I can't argue with any of his morals on life," Ian says. "He believes in honesty, in not doing anybody any harm, and doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. "As far as those things go, I pretty much base him on my own values, but I swear, I drink booze and I'm an atheist, so I am different to Harold." "Gemma Quaid interviewing Smith, 'Blue skies over Erinsborough', Birmingham Post, 9 February 2008, Features, TV & Radio, Pg. 32.
222. "I recently read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, which ignited my interest in a scientific, mathematical version of the world. No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist." [The Guardian: Matt Smith interview: lord of misrule by Euan Ferguson. 'Saturday 3 December 2011 15.15 EST' http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/03/matt-smith-interview-lord-misrule]
223. " Interestingly, however, Snow is no fan of Christianity per se: "I'm an atheist," he says, "so I'm fairly harsh on the idea that Christianity is a self-evidently brilliant creed that everyone adopts as soon as they're told about it." " Matt Warman interviewing Snow, 'Dan Snow: How Britain nearly became the Irish Isles', Daily Telegraph, 22 May 2009 (accessed 26 May 2009).
224. "Stellan Skarsgård: Bibeln och Koranen får inte styra skolan". Expressen.
225. "404 - Resource not found".
226. Soderbergh said "I’m a hardcore atheist." State of Independence, by Scotland on Sunday, January 23, 2005, (Accessed June 8, 2007).
227. In response to the question "Is there a God?", Solondz said "Well, me, I'm an atheist, so I don't really believe there is. But I suppose I could be proven wrong." "Is There A God?: The A.V. Club".
228. Sweeney, Eamon, "Shock Tactics: Doug Stanhope", 2 Oct 2009, in The Independent, online at : "I'm also a loud atheist".
229. "Like a lot of atheists, Starkey can seem a little obsessed with religion. [...] 'Personally, I find the inclusiveness and uncertainty of the Church of England as horrible as the brittle, iron-edged certainties of Islam and I would much rather the chairman of the National Secular Society held up the Coronation sword. But I can't see that happening. Although I am an atheist, unlike a Richard Dawkins, I understand the importance of religious motive and, broadly, I am sympathetic to it - except when it is fused with the political, which is what Henry does, and which modern Islam wants to do, and also what Tony Blair and George Bush flirt with.' " Nigel Farndale interviewing David Starkey, Sunday Telegraph, November 5, 2006, Section 7, Pg. 18.
230. "The actress Juliet Stevenson was on the ITV1 Sunday programme last week, reading the poems of Philip Larkin. She revealed that she, like him, was an atheist.""Coming out as atheist – Billy Connolly, Juliet Stevenson and Peter O'Toole". secularism.org.uk.
231. Nightline, ABC News, March 25, 2011, Quote: "I am an atheist, I live my life like I'm an atheist."
232. Swanson, Carl. "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Talk About Why The Book of Mormon Isn’t Actually Offensive, and the Future of South Park", New York Magazine, March 11, 2011
233. When asked what book he would choose to memorize, Straczynski said "Despite being an atheist, I would probably choose the Book of Job." Online chat with Straczynski, hosted by SciFi.com(Accessed June 8, 2007) Archived October 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
234. " He also says he is dead proud of his Jewishness. "Not in a religious way - I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture." " Sam Wollaston interviewing Sugar, 'Sir Alan will see you now', The Guardian (London), 25 March 2009, Features pages, Pg. 8 (online version accessed 25 March 2009).
235. "Two works created during the last year complete the bill. In the Beginning is a joke that doesn't come off. The story, filtered through Taylor's profound atheism, is that of the book of Genesis." Luke Jennings, 'Sure touch of an old master', The Daily Telegraph, May 1, 2003, Pg. 21.
236. Interview with Penn Jillette in which he mentions his and Teller's atheism.
237. "Thompson is equally vociferous on matters of faith. [...] "I'm an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Koran, and I refute them." She knows she's being controversial, but she believes passionately in what she says, and passionately believes it needs saying. "I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly, she continues, frowning a little. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable." " Jane Cornwell interviewing Thompson, 'Acting on outspoken beliefs', The Australian, 15 October 2008, Features, Pg. 19 (accessed 11 February 2009).
238. Eric Michael Mazur (2011). Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. ABC-CLIO. p. 438. ISBN 9780313330728. Yet Truffaut, an atheist, was not stumping for God with these conservative attacks.
239. David Sterritt (1999). The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible. Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780521589710. One way of understanding Godard's approach is to contrast it with that of François Truffaut, one of his most respected New Wave colleagues. As a self-described atheist, Truffaut took special pleasure in the materiality of cinema, noting that no photographic image can be obtained without real, physical light making direct contact with a real, physical object in the immediate presence of the camera.
240. "I've never believed in God, but I did enjoy the theatrical side so I was always keen to be in Mum's little plays." Wendy Turner in the item 'Stars of Bethlehem: Nativity Springboard to Fame', The Mirror (UK), 19 December 2000 (byline: Richard Barber), Features, Pg. 12, 13.
241. When discussing his movie Heaven (2002 film) with Stephen Applebaum of The Independent, a movie written by Krzysztof Kieslowski as the first part of a trilogy that would never come to fruition as he passed, Tykwer said of the film that is loaded with biblical allusion although not a religious one: "The way Kieslowski presented love, as a concept under which people can survive, is very much something I believe in. Love is not rational, and yet it is what makes us live. On that level I feel very much that I'm living a life that is devoted to love, and that is a very spiritual existence in a way. But I absolutely believe that the power to discover, or not to discover, love is within us. We don't need any god for that. You could say I'm a spiritual atheist."
242. " "I became an atheist through years of studying to be a Christian apologist." 'The Kevin Pollak Chat Show', January 1, 2010,
243. " "A lifelong atheist, he needed a belief, a philosophy, a cause," noted his first wife." Charles Spencer, 'Starstruck critic with a sting in his tail', Daily Telegraph, September 29, 2001, Pg. 07.
244. "If Jaya Bachchan is in the film, I will go to hell. But then I am an atheist, and do not believe in god." Jaya Bachchan in Sarkar Raaj?, India Times, April 18, 2008 (accessed April 21, 2008)
245. Mr Vaughan-Thomas says he is the only Welshman brought up as a trained atheist: "I am totally irreligious, but I can understand why religious people are concerned about the disintegration of Christian ethics. [...] I am a sympathetic atheist and I go to services from time to time and enjoy the great sense of history." Trevor Fishlock, 'Regional notebook: A feeling for history in one man's abiding devotion to a landscape', The Times, January 8, 1973; pg. 3; Issue 58675; col C.
246. "But then, this auteur has no hauteur; nor, more importantly, is he Jewish. Rather, he is an atheist who had a bout of Pentacostalist fervour in his mid-20s that still inflects his work and thinking: he still reads widely about Christian history; he considers RoboCop to be a Christ-like story of resurrection." Stuart Jeffries interviewing Verhoeven, 'Of course there are nude scenes... I'm Dutch!', The Guardian, January 12, 2007, Film and Music Pages, Pg. 6.
247. "I am an atheist but I am sure a divine zone exists, where certain special machines like Fellini work." Paolo Villaggio, 'Tributes to a rare talent: Ciao, Federico', The Guardian (London), November 1, 1993, Features Pages, Pg. 3.
248. "I will explore [theology] only in so much as people will tend to use it as a metaphor for the way they talk. As an atheist, I'm not going to spend a huge amount of time with it, unless there is a point about the way religion interacts with our humanity that I think needs to be made. You can't stop the Garden of Eden stuff. It keeps coming up because that is the mythos that I was brought up with, and it's very powerful in this place. But, I would say that I'm more interested in the philosophy than the theology of the thing." Whedon interviewed by Christina Radish, 'Joss Whedon on Developing 'Dollhouse'' Media Blvd Magazine, 12 February 2009 (accessed 6 March 2009).
249. As well as being apparently happily married to Richard Dawkins since 1992, Ward contributed an 'in the same spirit' footnote to Dawkins's The God Delusion, and jointly read that book with Dawkins for the audiobook version.
250. Terrail, Patrick (1999). A Taste of Hollywood: The Story of Ma Maison. New York: Lebhar-Friedman Books. pp. 104–105. Near the end of his life Welles was dining at Ma Maison, his favorite restaurant in Los Angeles, when proprietor Patrick Terrail conveyed an invitation from the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, who asked Welles to be his guest of honor at divine liturgy at Saint Sophia Cathedral. Welles replied, 'Please tell him I really appreciate that offer, but I am an atheist.'
251. "In the 60s Tom Lehrer introduced me to the idea that you can be totally irreverent about anything. I realised nothing was sacred. I don't like authority. My atheism is very genuine. If God does exist, I don't think he's a very nice bloke." 'Pieces of me: Peter White: Radio presenter', The Guardian (London) July 26, 2006, G2 Features Pages, Pg. 16.
252. "Well, I'm a Jewish-Buddhist-Atheist, I guess." Pogrebin, Abigail (2005). Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. New York: Broadway. pp. 91–99. ISBN 978-0-7679-1612-7.
253. In his 2006 book Unintelligent Design: Why God isn't as smart as she thinks she is, Williams states: "Atheists like me don't think about God at all—unless provoked. We think about everything else that life's rich burden thrusts upon us. But God doesn't arise." (p.14; Allen & Unwin, Australia, ISBN 978-1-74114-923-4)
254. "LORD WILLIS (Lab.) said that although an atheist or humanist, he was not opposed to the teaching of religion in schools. What he objected to was the way in which it was presented. Except in rare instances, children were not taught about religion but about one religion and in a one-sided untruthful, dogmatic and prejudiced way." 'The Lords: contemporary approach to teaching religion in schools', The Times, November 16, 1967; pg. 5; Issue 57100; col A.
255. " Broadcaster Terry Wogan has spoken of the grief of losing his first daughter - and revealed that he has never believed in God. [...] He revealed how - despite a very Catholic upbringing in Ireland - he is actually an atheist. "I'm afraid I don't believe in God," he said. "My mother was devout and so is my wife. But I have the intellectual arrogance that makes it very hard to believe in him. I don't have the gift of faith. I remember at school I used to make up sins at confession - what we were told were sins by priests were not sins at all." " Larissa Nolan, 'I Have Never Believed in God: Wogan', The Sunday Independent (Ireland), 8 May 2005.