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 ATKINSONMr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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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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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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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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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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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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