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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and on screen. Rickman trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in modern and classical theatre productions.

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

Hate, Relationship, Silk, White

Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.

Director, Done, Men, Money, Sweet, Thinking

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Actors, Bored, Talking

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

Children, Fill, Life, Life Changing, Teacher, Tells

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Should, Tells, Voice

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

Cities, Exciting, Like, Like You, New York, Part

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting, Interesting, Know, Process

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Future, Sort, Surprising, Thinking, Wonderful, Would Be

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

Customers, Long, Lull, Lulls, Paying

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.

Came, Eight, New York, Punk, Rocks, York

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Director, Directors, Imagination, Longs, Sense

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Dead, Species, Stories, Tell, Who We Are

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Deal, Energy, Town, Towns, Wonderful

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

Ask, Cause, Directors, Mean, Space, Weird

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.

Art, Aware, Boys, Byrne, Cbgb, Taste

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

Give, Giving, Stare, Staring, Window

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Agents, Double, Good, Turns, Very Good

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Actor, Actors, English, Nervous, Newcastle, Thinking

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

America, Parks, Political, Regress

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Who I Am, People, Want, Work, Know

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