Alan Rickman Quotes

You 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 hope they don’t leave the theatre thinking that was nice…now where’s the cab?’

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.

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

My parents certainly didn’t have anything to do with the theater. I’m some kind of accident.

Why don’t I like you?Because you think I’m an asshole, and I’m not really, I’m just British and, well, you’re not.