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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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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Film Director
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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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 have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
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