Alan Rickman Quotes, Character Quotes

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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

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

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

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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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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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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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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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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

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

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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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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

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

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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

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