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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy it's just all so stressful and worrying.

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
Actor
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Mr Bean
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
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The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.
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I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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 Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
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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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I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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