Alan Rickman Quotes

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

Life, Able, Plan

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.
Alan Rickman

Change, Music, Book

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

Real, Apathy, England

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

House, Fine, Build

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.
Alan Rickman

Human, Control, Why

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

Freedom, Between, Discipline

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

Future, Wonderful, Unknown

I am the character you are not supposed to like.
Alan Rickman

Character, Supposed

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

Voice, Inside, Tells

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Alan Rickman

Time, Children, Small

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

Acting, Often, Process

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman

Control, Acting, Nerves

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

Work, Yourself, Seriously

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

Everything, Everybody, Knows

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
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

Change, Mean, Words

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

Life, Home, Living

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

Life, Art, Tender

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

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

Word, Active, Passive

Parts win prizes, not actors.
Alan Rickman

Win, Prizes, Parts

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman

Talent, Accident, Genes

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

Actor, Listening, Intensity

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

Character, Words, Together

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

Experience, Career, Sure

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: February 21, 1946

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