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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Alan Rickman

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Hammersmith
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
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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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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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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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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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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 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 think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
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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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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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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 you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
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