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Rowan Atkinson Biography

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean. Atkinson first came to prominence in the BBC's sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82), receiving the 1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and via his participation in The Secret Policeman's Ball from 1979. His other work includes the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, playing a bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), voicing the red-billed hornbill Zazu in The Lion King (1994), and featuring in the BBC sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995–1996). His work in theatre includes the 2009 West End revival of the musical Oliver!.

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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.

Funny, Gone, Luther, Man, Men, Sarcastic

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.

Alleged, Degrees, Eye, Home, Noise, See

[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

Character, Maigret, Nice, People, Place, Trap

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.

Character, Demand, Drama, Keys, Played, Ways

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.

Careers, Christian, Figures, Lampoon, Religious, Spent

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

Atheism, Good, Idea, Ideas, Religious

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.

Acting, Actors, Empathetically, Moment, Pressure, Thinking

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!

Case, Eight, Running, Solving, Ten, Wife

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.

Character, Couple, Feet, Story

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

Marketing, Noticed, Gets

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Freedoms, Law, Race, Religion, Religious

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

Arrow, Arrows, Funny, Gas, Neck, Sarcastic

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Clear, Insult, Outlawing, Sarcasm, Sarcastic, Views

It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

Easy, Feature, Features, Take, Turns

We haven't made any particular decision [on Maigret], I haven't been asked if I want to carry on with it. All these things are a matter of whether you feel as though the idea is developing and whether it's still interesting to play.

Carry, Decision, Developing, Ideas, Interesting, Play

ITV and the production company contacted me and asked if I fancied playing the role [of Maigret]. It took me a long time to decide to do it. In fact, I decided not to. I thought about it for some weeks, and thought 'perhaps not' and it went away for a while, and then it sort of came back. They said 'Are you sure you don't want to play him?', so I thought about it for a lot longer again, and eventually decided that I would.

Came, Decided, Long, Play, Roles, Said

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Balls, Down And, Juggle, Like, Periods

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

Art, Arts, Comedy, Community, Farting, Long

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

Attitude, Men, Odd Man, Particular

[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.

Internal, Let, Made, Maigret, Might, Thinking

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