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 nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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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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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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I'd rather just be the girl who likes to eat a lot of food.
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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.
