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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
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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Camera Man Want
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
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
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
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
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
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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Abuse Activity Atheist Deserve Human Incite Intense Outrageous Religion Teaching
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
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
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
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
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
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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
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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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
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
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
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film

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