We must be allowed to insult each other.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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 think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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