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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.

Rowan Atkinson

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
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
A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
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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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
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
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
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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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
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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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
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’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

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