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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
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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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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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I like it when stories are left open.
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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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Why don't I like you? Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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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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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
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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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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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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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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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