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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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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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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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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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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I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.
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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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[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy it's just all so stressful and worrying.
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It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.
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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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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I'm sure that a French production of this [Maigret series] would be different. For better or worse, who's to say, but probably not very good for 8 o'clock on ITV.
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