Alan Rickman Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Children Quotes

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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If you judge the character, you cant play it.

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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?

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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 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.

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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.

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

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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

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

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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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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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

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