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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
Rowan Atkinson
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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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.
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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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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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 find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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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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[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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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy it's just all so stressful and worrying.
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Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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 can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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