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.
ROWAN ATKINSONWhen 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 suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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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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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 certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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 a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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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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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 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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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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