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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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 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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
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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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