Alan Rickman Quotes, Character Quotes

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

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

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

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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

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

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

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

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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

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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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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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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

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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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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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

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