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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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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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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To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform
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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'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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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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I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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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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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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I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.
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I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
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