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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

Rowan Atkinson

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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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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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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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