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We still have a tradition certainly in English television it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
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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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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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 would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
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