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Top 50 Quotes by Alan Rickman
“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.”
“Talent is an accident of genes – and a responsibility.”
“I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.”
“I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”
“So you can’t judge the character you’re playing ever.”
“It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”
“I never talk about ‘Harry Potter’ because I think that would rob children of something that’s private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.”
“A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, ‘I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.’ Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.”
“My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.”
“My parents certainly didn’t have anything to do with the theater. I’m some kind of accident.”
“Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we’re in deep trouble.”
“There’s a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.”
“I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.”
“If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there’s only one topic of conversation.”
“I’m a quite serious actor who doesn’t mind being ridiculously comic.”
“I’m always aware of the camera and it feels like that’s the audience.”
“If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.”
“I like it when stories are left open.”
“Language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.”
“Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.”
“I’m a lot less serious than people think, it’s probably because the way my face is put together.”
“All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.”
“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.”
“We spend too much time thinking about the end of the world. It isn’t going to happen. Today. I promise you. Not before lunch.”
“You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.”
“I’m very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you’re reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.”
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.”
“What’s interesting about the process of acting is how often you don’t know what you’re doing.”
“The point about a great story is that it’s got a beginning, a middle and end.”
“Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.”
“Each character I play has different dimensions. I’m not interested in words that pull them together.”
“I think worrying things are going on in England – a real apathy.”
“I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.”
“I’m like a child with a new toy. I’d like to take what I can from Hollywood, and whatever it is one wants to do in England, and put them together. I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.”
“Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you’ve got to hang on to something childlike. You’ve got to know what play is.”
“It is an ancient need to be told in stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.”
“It’s not just work, it’s your life. 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. Or, what’s impossible? What’s a fantasy?”
“Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in and that’s all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else.”
“I’m as insecure as the next actor. I think any actor you ask will say that. This is a business not only based on ability; it is based on fashion and age and youth and all sorts of trends and tricks and so-called qualities.”
“You have to roll your sleeves up in the theater and really confront issues in a straightforward and nightly way. That becomes about stamina and discipline.”
“You learn that you don’t have any real freedom without real discipline. It means years and years of hard work, and you never get it right and the horizon keeps moving away.”
“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged.”
“Before we can repent, we have to sin.”
“A morsel of bread is more precious to man than a mountain of diamonds and gold, amen.”
“Anyone who isn’t dead or from another plane of existence would do well to cover their ears right about now.”
“Christmas shopping, never an easy or a pleasant task.”
“If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.”
“We spend too much time thinking about the end of the world. It isn’t going to happen. Today. I promise you. Not before lunch.”
“The air is full of spices.”
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