I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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Alan Rickman
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About Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor. He was renowned for his stage and screen roles and for his deep and distinctive voice. He received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Actor Award, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2009, The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016, at…
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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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.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.