The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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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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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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