I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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 tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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For 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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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