Alan Rickman Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

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

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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

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

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

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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

I like it when stories are left open.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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

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

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.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

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

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

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 can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

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