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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
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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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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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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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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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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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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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