Alan Rickman Quotes
"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Idea, Magic)
"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Accident, Parents, Theater)
"Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Love, Boats, Nothing, Pleasure)
"On film you put all your energies into a single glance."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Film)
"One longs for a director with a sense of imagination."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Imagination, Sense)
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Film, Rules)
"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Talent, Accident, Responsibility)
"The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial."
- Alan Rickman
"There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Voice)
"What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: God, Actors, Talking)
"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Acting)
"Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: People, Play)
"It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Future)
"You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped."
- Alan Rickman
"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: England)
"I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Success, Failure, Court, Desire, Want)
"If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Time, Conversation)
"Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Control, Acting, Nerves)
"All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Accuracy, Actor, Listening, Want)
"Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Character, Play, Words)
"I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Right)
"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Word)
"I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Apathy, England)
"I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Being, Play, Thinking)
"I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Actor, Being, Mind)
"I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience."
- Alan Rickman
"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Life, Indecision)
"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Art, Life)
"If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Work, People, Want)
"If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine."
- Alan Rickman
"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Discipline, Connection, Freedom)