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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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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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Mr Bean
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
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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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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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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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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.
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No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
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Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.
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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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I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
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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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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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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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