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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
Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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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 have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
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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 want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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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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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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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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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
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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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