Alan Rickman Quotes (85 quotes)

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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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„I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.“
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„You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.“
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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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„The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.“
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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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„The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.“
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„Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.“
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„So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.“
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„Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.“
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„One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.“
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„Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.“
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„I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.“
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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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„I love working in New York theater.“
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„I like it when stories are left open.“
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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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„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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„Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.“
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Alan Rickman
Author born: February 21, 1946
Nationality: British
Author Profession: Actor

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