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I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.

Rowan Atkinson

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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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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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 naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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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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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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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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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.
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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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