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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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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.
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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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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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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’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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