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Alan Rickman Inspirational Quotes (107)

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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
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I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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I like it when stories are left open.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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