British - Actor | February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
Alan Rickman
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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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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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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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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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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 can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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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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