Alan Rickman Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

  Alan Rickman

  Responsibility, Acting, Talent

• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

• Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

  Alan Rickman

  Focus, Listening, Acting

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

  Alan Rickman

  Interesting, Acting, Process

• Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

  Alan Rickman

  Theatre, Acting, Nerves

  "Emma Watson attacked for 'exploiting' Alan Rickman's death 'to push her own feminist agenda'" by Helen Pye, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2016.

• I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

  Alan Rickman

  Animal, Acting, Kind

• Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

  Alan Rickman

  Escaping, Who I Am, Play

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