Alan Rickman quotes His role as Hans Gruber in 'Die Hard' (1988) Born: 02/21/1946 Country: united_kingdom

• Talent is an accident of genes-and a responsibility. (Alan Rickman) [talent/responsibility]
• The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial. (Alan Rickman)
• The main trouble is that as an actor you've got too many memories of horrible rehearsals. (Alan Rickman)
• The play is as seductive as any of its characters. (Alan Rickman)
• The play makes the rules. This play is about couples who swim in and out of focus. (Alan Rickman)
• The whole essence of Valmont was surface: dirt under polished fingernails. (Alan Rickman) [essence]
• There are a lot of gremlins out there for both of us. (Alan Rickman)
• There are particular muscles which go flabby if you don't use them. (Alan Rickman)
• There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. (Alan Rickman)
• There's no master plan. It's not calculated. Every choice is taken on its own terms. (Alan Rickman) [master/choice]
• Valmont had such a complicated psyche, you couldn't say that about Hans Gruber. (Alan Rickman)
• We all say lots of stupid things that, you know, you wish you could take back. (Alan Rickman) [wish/take]
• What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. (Alan Rickman) [god/actors]
• What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. (Alan Rickman) [process]
• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter. (Alan Rickman)
• When you come off the stage, you want to walk out into life. (Alan Rickman) [stage/life]
• Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. (Alan Rickman) [people]
• You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped. (Alan Rickman)
• You don't always look ahead, but you turn equally to the past. I think of that more and more. (Alan Rickman) [look/past/think/more]
• You only speak as a human being in life and, therefore, you're trying to reproduce life onstage. (Alan Rickman) [speak/human/being/life]
• You watch yourself doing things because you have set in motion events which will change your life. (Alan Rickman) [watch/motion/willpower/change]
• You're there with these characters looking at life through generations. (Alan Rickman) [life]
• You're too busy sensing other people's fear rather than your own. (Alan Rickman) [fear]

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