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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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.
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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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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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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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