Alan Rickman Quotes, Eye Quotes, Play Quotes

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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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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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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

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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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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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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

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

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I love working in New York theater.

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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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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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