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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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Rowan Atkinson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 6
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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 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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To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform
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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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I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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 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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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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The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.
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I'm sure that a French production of this [Maigret series] would be different. For better or worse, who's to say, but probably not very good for 8 o'clock on ITV.
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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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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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 would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
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