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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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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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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 point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
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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 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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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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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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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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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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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
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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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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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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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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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