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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

Alan Rickman

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Graphic Designer
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Stage Actor
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Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
Rickman
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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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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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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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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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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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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
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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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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
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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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