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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Hammersmith
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.
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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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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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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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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
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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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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
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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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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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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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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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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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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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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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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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