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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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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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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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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
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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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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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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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Why don't I like you? Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
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I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
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