Alan Rickman Quotes, Nice Quotes, Lying 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?'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Nice Quotes , Lying Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Children Quotes , Hate Quotes

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Lucky Quotes , Theater Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Misfits Quotes , Appeals Quotes

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Two Quotes

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Mean Quotes , Space Quotes

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Supportive Quotes

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Towns Quotes , Energy Quotes

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , England Quotes , Said Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Stories Quotes , Ends Quotes

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Who I Am Quotes , Play Quotes

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Long Quotes , Customers Quotes

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Play Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Government Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , New York Quotes , Years Quotes

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Dubbing Quotes , Lasts Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Home Quotes , Edinburgh Quotes

I 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 aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Art Quotes , Boys Quotes