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 AtkinsonAnd, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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 AtkinsonLook, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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