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Alan Rickman Quotes

British - Actor | February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

Live People World Weird You Want

And it's a human need to be told stories. 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.

Control Why Possible Human Need

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Great Beginning Story End Middle

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

Feel Audience Response Absolutely

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

Love Morning Me Down Scent Doorway

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

Love Me Nothing Pleasure Travelling

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Home Freedom Job Me Feet End

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.

New York Singing New Dancing Years

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Me You House Build Suit Fine

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Rules Film Get Market Forces Made

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Control You Acting Over Absolutely

I like it when stories are left open.

Open Left Like Stories

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