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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
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.
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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 think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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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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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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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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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
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