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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
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
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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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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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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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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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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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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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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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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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