We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, … - Rowan Atkinson

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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.

Rowan Atkinson

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

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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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Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.

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

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