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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

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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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 would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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 mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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 have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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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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