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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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 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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I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.
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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 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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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 like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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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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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
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The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.
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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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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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[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.
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