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 ATKINSONIt’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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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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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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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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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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