Alan RickmanYou can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hop… ▶361DeathHopeThought
Alan RickmanOriginally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.372Life
Alan RickmanI was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very… ▶373DeathTime
Alan RickmanOn film you put all your energies into a single glance.375Love
Alan RickmanThere's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.353Reflection
Alan RickmanYou try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.343DeathHope
Alan RickmanThe audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.332Death
Alan RickmanI'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.321Life
Alan RickmanI always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.311Thought
Alan RickmanWhat's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.322Truth
Alan RickmanActors 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 on 'Nobel Son'.… ▶311Reading
Alan RickmanI'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.356HumanityThought
Alan RickmanYou can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.367Reading
Alan RickmanI think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.323Thought
Alan RickmanI think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.367Thought
Alan RickmanI'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.357Death
Alan RickmanNothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.313Love
Alan RickmanI 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.303HumorThoughtTime
Alan RickmanI think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. ✨ Alan Rickman & Rupert Grint On 'CBGB,’ Reuniting Post-'Potter’ And Favorite Halloween Costume… ▶303Thought
Alan RickmanI do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.369Politics
Alan RickmanIt would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.347HopeThoughtTime
Alan RickmanMy definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.293Reflection
Alan RickmanI was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.3610Thought
Alan RickmanThe first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music w… ▶282LifeTime
Alan RickmanI love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It a… ▶293Love
Alan RickmanI approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him w… ▶326Politics
Alan RickmanSomebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.337Hope
Alan RickmanTalent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.282Reading
Alan RickmanThe 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.'294Time
Alan RickmanAny actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.316Thought
