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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
— Alan Rickman
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
— Alan Rickman
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
— Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
— Ike Barinholtz
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
— Alan Rickman
I like it when stories are left open.
— Alan Rickman
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. — Alan Rickman
Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
— Alan Rickman
Parts win prizes, not actors.
— Alan Rickman
Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.
— Alan Rickman
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
— Alan Rickman
On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
— Alan Rickman
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
— Alan Rickman
Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
— Alan Rickman
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
— Alan Rickman
There is nothing wrong with a man being a Feminist, I think it is to our mutual advantage.
— Alan Rickman
A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
— Alan Rickman
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
— Alan Rickman
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
— Alan Rickman
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
— Alan Rickman
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.
— Alan Rickman
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
— Alan Rickman
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
— Alan Rickman
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
— Alan Rickman
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.
— Alan Rickman
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.'
— Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.
— Matthew Lewis
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
— Alan Rickman
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
— Alan Rickman
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
— Alan Rickman
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
— Alan Rickman
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
— Alan Rickman
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
— Alan Rickman
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
— Alan Rickman
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.
— Alan Rickman
I'm a lot less serious than people think.
— Alan Rickman
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
— Alan Rickman
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
— Alan Rickman
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
— Alan Rickman
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
— Alan Rickman
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
— Alan Rickman
If you judge the character, you cant play it.
— Alan Rickman
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
— Alan Rickman
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
— Alan Rickman
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
— Alan Rickman
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
— Alan Rickman
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
— Alan Rickman
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously
— Alan Rickman
I love working in New York theater.
— Alan Rickman
The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.
— Alan Rickman
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
— Alan Rickman