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I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.
Rowan Atkinson
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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.
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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 good thing about those original credit card commercials was that they were very filmic, they were like little movies, so it wasn't a big step to think well maybe we could make a big movie using this character, which we eventually did.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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'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'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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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 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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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.
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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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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 don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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.
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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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