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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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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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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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 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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

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