Alan Rickman Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

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 like it when stories are left open.

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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.'

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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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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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.

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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

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

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

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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.

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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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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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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

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

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

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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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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.

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