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I like it when stories are left open.

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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
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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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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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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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
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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'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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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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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
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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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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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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 love working in New York theater.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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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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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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