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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 have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.
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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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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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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 don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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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 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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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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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
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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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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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'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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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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It's slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.
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