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.
ROWAN ATKINSONFor 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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 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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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What 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?
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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