Alan Rickman Quotes

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

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.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.