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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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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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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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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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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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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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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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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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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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 like it when stories are left open.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
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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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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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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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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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