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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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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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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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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
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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 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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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
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A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
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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 think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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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 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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