Alan Rickman Quotes, New York Quotes, Eight Quotes

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

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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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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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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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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

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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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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

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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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I love working in New York theater.

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

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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

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

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

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Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

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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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