Alan Rickman Quotes, New York Quotes, Eight Quotes

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 have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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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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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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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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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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

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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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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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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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

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

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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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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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

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

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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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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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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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