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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.

Rowan Atkinson

Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Birthday Fabulous
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
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
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Easy Feature
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
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
We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Behaviour Funny
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Children Decline Face Physical Sad
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
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 particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry

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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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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