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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.
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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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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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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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable 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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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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At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.
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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 don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.
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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 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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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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