Alan Rickman Quotes
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'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I don't mind people want to think Muhammad is the greatest fighter around. Everybody wants to make him great because of his mouth, that he was the best. He was good, but that doesn't make him great. I proved that.
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So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT
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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.
