I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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