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You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.


Alan Bates  Alan Bates
Tags: Work  Me  Career  Way  Always  Without 

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Sir Alan Arthur Bates, CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

    Alan Bates  Alan Bates   
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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  Alan Bates   
 Tags: Time People Timing Play You Own
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People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

    Alan Bates  Alan Bates   
 Tags: People You I Can Say Ask How
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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  Alan Bates   
 Tags: Voice Know You Why Go Against
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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  Alan Bates   
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I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

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I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

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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.

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