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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
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Hammersmith
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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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 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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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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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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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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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic the actor doesn't.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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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 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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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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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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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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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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