We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSONWhat 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?
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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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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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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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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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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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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