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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.

Rowan Atkinson

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
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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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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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 would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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 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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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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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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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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