Alan Rickman Quotes - Page 4

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• The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

  Alan Rickman

  Directors, Guts, Knows

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• I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

  Alan Rickman

  Art, Boys, Cbgb

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• I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

  Alan Rickman

  Hate, White, Silk

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

  Alan Rickman

  Character, Play, Together

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• On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

  Alan Rickman

  Energy, Film, Glances

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• In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

  Alan Rickman

  Two, Six Months, Half

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• Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

  Alan Rickman

  Character, Play, Facts

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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

  Animal, Acting, Kind

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• I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Home, Feet

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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.

  Alan Rickman

  Dark, Gun, Play

  "Alan Rickman: The Empire Interview". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.empireonline.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

  Alan Rickman

  Home, Edinburgh, Way

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• You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

  Alan Rickman

  Long, Customers, Lulls

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• Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

  Alan Rickman

  Travel, Journey, Giving

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• Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

  Alan Rickman

  Supportive, Actors

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• 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

  New York, Years, Dancing

  "Alan Rickman Says Goodbye to 'Harry Potter' in a published letter to J.K.Rowling" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

  Alan Rickman

  People, Groups, Actors

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• Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

  Alan Rickman

  New York, Cities, Like You

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• Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

  Alan Rickman

  Film, Made, Force

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• From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  "Alan Rickman Interview NOBEL SON". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2008.

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• I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

  Alan Rickman

  Mind, Actors, Serious

  "11 Actors You Recognize Whose Names You Forget" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com. February 1, 2006.

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• If you judge the character, you cant play it.

  Alan Rickman

  Character, Play, Judging

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• England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

  Alan Rickman

  England, Said, Exciting

  "Alan Rickman & Rupert Grint On ‘CBGB,’ Reuniting Post-‘Potter’ And Favorite Halloween Costumes". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2013.

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• My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

  Alan Rickman

  Parent, Kind, Theater

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• Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

  Alan Rickman

  Teenager, People, Quests

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• If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

  Alan Rickman

  Talking, Topics, Los Angeles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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