British - Actor | February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
Alan Rickman
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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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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. They say 'yes' to things; not like the endless 'nos' and 'hrrumphs' you get in England!
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A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
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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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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
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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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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
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