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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.

Alan Rickman

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Stage Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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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 a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
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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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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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