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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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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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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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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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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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I love working in New York theater.
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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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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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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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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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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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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.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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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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