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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.
Rowan Atkinson
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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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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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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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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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 like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
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Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
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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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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.
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The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.
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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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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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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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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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I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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