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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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Hammersmith
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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More quotes by Alan Rickman
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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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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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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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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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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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
Alan Rickman
Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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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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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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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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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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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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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
Alan Rickman
