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 ATKINSONIf you want to be strong learn to live alone.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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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 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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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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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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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