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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Graphic Designer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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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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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
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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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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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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
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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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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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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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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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