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Rowan Atkinson

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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
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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Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
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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Body Children Culture Essential Man
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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Ability Beautiful Inspirational Need Performance Skill Success
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
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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Car Cause Evaporation Toy
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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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
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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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
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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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
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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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
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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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious

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