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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
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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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
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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Car Cause Evaporation Toy
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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Age Character Regard Remember Time
If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Alone Healing Inspirational Learning Live One Liner Strong
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
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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Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Company Deep Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Inspirational
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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