Alan Rickman Quotes, New York Quotes

I love working in New York theater.

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

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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

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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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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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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 knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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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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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

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