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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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