Alan Rickman Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Alan Rickman on Wise Famous Quotes.
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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.
Why don't I like you?"
"Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
"Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.