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Alan Rickman Inspirational Quotes (107)

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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.
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