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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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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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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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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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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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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 think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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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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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
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