We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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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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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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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