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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Rowan Atkinson

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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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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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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 a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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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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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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