A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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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