Alan Rickman Quotes, Needs Quotes, Stories Quotes

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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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

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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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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

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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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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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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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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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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

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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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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

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

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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

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