Alan Rickman Quotes, Animal Quotes, Acting Quotes

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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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.

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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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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.

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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

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

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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

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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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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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

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

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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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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.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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

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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

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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.

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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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