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actor alan rickman has played a loving husband, a terrorist leader, a stern professor of the dark arts and even a caterpillar; from sense and sensibility to die hard to harry potter, his talents have made him recognizable to several generations of moviegoers.
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alan rickman has played professor severus snape throughout the harry potter series.

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"[playing a villain is] a very small part of whatever i've done. it's like two or three parts, and they just happened to have big publicity budgets. but ... it's not the major area of my work."

"you can't ... say to yourself, 'i am playing a villain.' [the characters] don't think they are anymore than heroes think that they're heroes. they're just who they are and this is what they want. it's other people that put that label. so you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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"and i suppose all i can say is as time has gone on, i've been fortunate to do things like sense and sensibility and truly madly deeply. [in] love actually, [rickman's character, harry] might have been naughty, but not exactly a villain. ...
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"i love working in new york theater. ... it is very demanding, but it's good to be in a city where you feel that theater is actually part of the life of the city. you know, london is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else. but here,ugg ashur, it's,incanto perfume, you know, your friends and neighbors."


british actor alan rickman discusses his distinctive sound and his experience in musicals.
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alan rickman has played professor severus snape throughout the harry potter series.

"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. so the rehearsal room does become a bit of a marketplace, and new plays risk everybody's sensibilities. that's the whole point about them. but, you know, hopefully, ultimately, [seminar playwright theresa rebeck is] happy because she knows we're all there because we respect her writing so much. ...
rickman tells npr's neal conan about returning to the stage and playing the villain.
now, rickman — a former member of the royal shakespeare company — is bringing that legacy back to the stage with seminar, a new broadway play about a literary celebrity who gives writing lessons to four aspiring young novelists.
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"actors are actually very supportive of each other. ... in my experience, [writers are] quite nervous of each other,uggs australia uk, and probably quite rightly when it's such a solitary occupation. and, you know, months and years of work can be dashed by one bad review or a book that doesn't sell or something. actors usually have each other."

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