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Alan Bates
British
Actor
About the author
Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Voice
I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Life
#Love
#Thought
#Society
#Sense
#Trying
I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Work
#Career
You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Comedy
I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Acting
#Actors
You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Time
#People
#Play
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Film
#People
#Public
I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Time
#People
#Living
An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Actor
#Performance
I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#Love
#People
People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.
Alan Bates,
British
Actor
#People