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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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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 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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.
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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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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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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy it's just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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 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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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