Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSONTry to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSONA 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONBirthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSONMy personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSONI consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
ROWAN ATKINSONI mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSONI enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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.
ROWAN ATKINSONYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
ROWAN ATKINSONFor telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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