Alan Rickman Quotes, Character Quotes, Play Quotes

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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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 can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

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

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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

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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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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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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 like it when stories are left open.

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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

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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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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

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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 get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

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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 don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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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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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

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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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