I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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 have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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 want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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