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I like it when stories are left open.
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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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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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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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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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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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 coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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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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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
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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 want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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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.
Alan Rickman
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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