I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
ROWAN ATKINSONLook, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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 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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