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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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 was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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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 never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about 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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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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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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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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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 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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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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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
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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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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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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 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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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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