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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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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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’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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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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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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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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