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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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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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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I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.
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I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.
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No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
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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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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.
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The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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[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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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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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