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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
Alan Rickman
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
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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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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 -
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Alan Rickman
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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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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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 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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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.
Alan Rickman
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Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
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I love working in New York theater.
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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.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Alan Rickman
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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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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…
Alan Rickman -
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
Alan Rickman -
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
Alan Rickman