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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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 Director
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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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 get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
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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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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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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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