Alan Rickman Quotes, Two Quotes, Six Months Quotes

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

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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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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

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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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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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

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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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

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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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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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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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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

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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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