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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
Rowan Atkinson
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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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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It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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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I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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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.
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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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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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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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 want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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