Alan Bates Quotes

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

Why, Against, Voice

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
Alan Bates

Emotional, Actor

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
Alan Bates

Time, Living, Impossible

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

Work, Career, Tried

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
Alan Bates

Acting, Feeds, Privileged

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.
Alan Bates

Love, Happen, Two

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

Life, Love, Society

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

Try, Knowing, Film

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.
Alan Bates

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

Time, Play, Individual

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

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
Alan Bates

Somewhere, Steel

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: February 17, 1934

Died: December 27, 2003

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