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ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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