Alan Rickman quotes - page 3

I like it when stories are left open. (Alan Rickman)
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney. View quote
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications. View quote
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? View quote
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I'm a lot less serious than people think. View quote
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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. View quote
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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. View quote
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda. View quote
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Parts win prizes, not actors. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home. View quote
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically. View quote
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I love working in New York theater. View quote
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A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. (Alan Rickman)
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else. View quote
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. View quote
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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing. View quote
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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever. View quote
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