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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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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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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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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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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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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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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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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 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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