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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Graphic Designer
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Stage Actor
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Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
Rickman
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Tender
Tenderness
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Life
More quotes by Alan Rickman
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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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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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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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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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
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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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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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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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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
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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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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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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
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