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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.
Alan Rickman -
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
Alan Rickman
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
Alan Rickman -
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
Alan Rickman -
I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
Alan Rickman -
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
Alan Rickman -
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
Alan Rickman
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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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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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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
Alan Rickman -
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Alan Rickman -
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.
Alan Rickman -
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
Alan Rickman
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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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I love working in New York theater.
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Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.
Alan Rickman -
Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
Alan Rickman -
You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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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.
Alan Rickman
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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.
Alan Rickman -
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Alan Rickman -
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan Rickman -
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
Alan Rickman