Alan Rickman Quotes - Page 2

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• I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

  Alan Rickman

  Moving, Writing, Play

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• I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

  Alan Rickman

  Expectations, Done, Defying

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• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

  Alan Rickman

  Listening, Actors, Want

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• I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

  Alan Rickman

  Swim, Desire, Want

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• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

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• Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

  Alan Rickman

  Hungry, Describe Me, Mellow

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• I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

  Alan Rickman

  Children, Hate, Thinking

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• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  Alan Rickman

  Girlfriend, Morning, Block

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• One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Two, Together

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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.

  Alan Rickman

  Mean, Space, Directors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  Alan Rickman

  Misfits, Appeals, Maverick

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• I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Knows

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• When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Dancing, Looks, Bows

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• The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

  Alan Rickman

  Stories, Ends, Middle

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• You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

  Alan Rickman

  Nice, Lying, Thinking

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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

  Careers, Might, Brilliant

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• I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

  Alan Rickman

  Who I Am, I Can, Limitation

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• I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

  Alan Rickman

  Dubbing, Lasts, Spokes

  "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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• I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

  Alan Rickman

  Cameras, Feels, Audience

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• Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

  Alan Rickman

  Lucky, Theater, Working Life

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• I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

  Alan Rickman

  Live Life, Home, Yogurt

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• What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

  Alan Rickman

  Interesting, Acting, Process

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• I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

  Alan Rickman

  Lines, Forget You, Gremlins

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• If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

  Alan Rickman

  Who I Am, People, Want

  "Alan Rickman stole my heart when I was 18 - and broke it today" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. January 14, 2016.

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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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