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 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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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