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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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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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