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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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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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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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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
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I like it when stories are left open.
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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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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 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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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
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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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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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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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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
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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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