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.
ROWAN ATKINSONApart 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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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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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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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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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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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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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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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