Quotes By Alan Rickman

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

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

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

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

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

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

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

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

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

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

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

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

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

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

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

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.