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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf you want to be strong learn to live alone.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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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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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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