I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret]. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
We haven't made any particular decision [on Maigret], I haven't been asked if I want to carry on with it. All these… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'.… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are,… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
ITV and the production company contacted me and asked if I fancied playing the role [of Maigret]. It took me a long… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad.… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
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… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share
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