I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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