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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
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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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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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I like it when stories are left open.
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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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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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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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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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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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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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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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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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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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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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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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