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 ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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 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 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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Apart 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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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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