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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
Rowan Atkinson
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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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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 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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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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It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.
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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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I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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 don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.
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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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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
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