Alan Rickman Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Discipline Quotes

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

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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

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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.

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I like it when stories are left open.

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

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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

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

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

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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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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.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think.

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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 have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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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 do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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