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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.

Rowan Atkinson

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.

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