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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.
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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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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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 people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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I love working in New York theater.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
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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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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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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?
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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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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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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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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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