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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.

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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[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
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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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No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
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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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Monty Python crowd half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
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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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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 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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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'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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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
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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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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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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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