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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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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 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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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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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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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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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 consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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.
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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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