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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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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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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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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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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic the actor doesn't.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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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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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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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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