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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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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'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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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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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
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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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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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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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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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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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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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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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