I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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.
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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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 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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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 more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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