I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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 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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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 want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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