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To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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Mr Bean
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.
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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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.
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At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
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I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire story! His wife is running around and solving the case!
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It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
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[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.
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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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