Alan Rickman Quotes, Hate Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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

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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 am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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

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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

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

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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

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

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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'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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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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

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

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