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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Mr. 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.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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