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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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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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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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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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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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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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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I like it when stories are left open.
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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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I love working in New York theater.
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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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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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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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 can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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