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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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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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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 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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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