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 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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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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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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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