48 Alan Rickman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alan Rickman

British Actor

Born: Feb 21, 1946

Died: Jan 14, 2016

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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

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. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? Alan Rickman

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

Freedom Discipline Think Some Absolute Absolute Freedom Between Connection

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals. Alan Rickman

Home Freedom Me You Job Down Astaire Musicals Kind Photograph Fred Fred Astaire See About Crossed General Inspiring Knees Reminder Bleeding Reminds Feet Him Because Were His End Just Being Rehearsals Watch

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

Life My Life Indecision Able Never Been Just Plan

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. Alan Rickman

Great Beginning About Point Great Story Got End Middle Story

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

Me Word Active More Passive Than Maverick Which Appeals

I 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 almost makes me swoon. Alan Rickman

Love Morning Me Scent Down Every Our Girlfriend Delicious Almost Come Most Makes Block Doorway Flats Jasmine Round

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

Listening See Accuracy Intensity Want Actor

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

Mind Comic Quite Being Who Serious Ridiculously Actor

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

You Single Glance Put Energies Your Film

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

Day Me Every Day Every Mellow Hungry Describe

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk. Alan Rickman

Relationship White Silk Love-Hate Love-Hate Relationship

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

Character You Like Supposed Am

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing. Alan Rickman

Hope You Will Young Think Medium Kind Some About Part Know Am Proved Doing Go Lot Itself Gets Endless Just Young Filmmakers Film Now Thing Reinventing Here Filmmakers

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 Me Phone Three Become Books Phone Call Though Out Entire More Only Small Costume Delicate Unchanging Adult Containing Since Massive She Call Narrative Surest Were Than Hands Children Clue Held Persuaded Even Rowling

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home. Alan Rickman

Home Ways Feel Come Edinburgh Always Am Coming Coming Home Many

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

Me Think Everybody Everything About Knows Right

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

Success Failure Once Directions Both Court Want Swim Desire

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

Time Absolutely Studio Spoke Returned Microphone Just Where Last Last Time

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. Alan Rickman

Saying Me Better Will Every Sympathy Say Bit Out About Cross Mystery Write Writers Never Beyond Make Edit How Any Move Where Story Novel Play Here

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