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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.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
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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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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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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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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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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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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.
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