The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.
Rowan Atkinson[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.
Rowan AtkinsonI like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
Rowan AtkinsonNo, 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.
Rowan Atkinson