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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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Hammersmith
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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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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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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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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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
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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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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 knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
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Why don't I like you? Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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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 have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
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