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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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Mr Bean
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
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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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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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It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
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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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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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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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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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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Monty Python crowd half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
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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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The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.
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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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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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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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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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