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 ATKINSONI 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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 job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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