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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.

Rowan Atkinson

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 ATKINSON

Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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Camera Man Want
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
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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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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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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste

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