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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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Mr Bean
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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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The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.
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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'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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Monty Python crowd half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
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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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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 consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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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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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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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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.
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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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I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.
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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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