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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman
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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
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Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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