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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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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 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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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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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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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
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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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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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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 was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
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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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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'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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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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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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