Alan Rickman Quotes, New York Quotes

I love working in New York theater.

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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

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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.

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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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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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

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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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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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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

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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 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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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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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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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

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