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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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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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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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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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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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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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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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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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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
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A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
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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 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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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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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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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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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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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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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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