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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.

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
Graphic Designer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
Rickman
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Stories

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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
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I love working in New York theater.
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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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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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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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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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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
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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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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
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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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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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