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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
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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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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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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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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