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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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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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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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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
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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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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
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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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