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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. (Alan Rickman)
When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter. View quote
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. View quote
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. View quote
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I am the character you are not supposed to like. View quote
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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line. View quote
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together. View quote
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. View quote
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped. View quote
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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. View quote
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made. (Alan Rickman)
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. View quote
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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. View quote
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy. View quote
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. View quote
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. View quote
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The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? View quote
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me. View quote
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. View quote
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. View quote
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. (Alan Rickman)
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman - Image
Photo: David Shankbone derivative work: Suzelfe (talk), GFDL
Occupation: British Actor
Born: February 21, 1946
Died: January 14, 2016
Quotes count: 84

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