Alan Rickman Quotes

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

Alan Rickman

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• I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

  

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• The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

  

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• The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Simple
  • Actor
  • Difference