Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
ROWAN ATKINSONA 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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