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

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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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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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

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

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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 have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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

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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 do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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

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

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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

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