Alan Rickman Quotes, Moving Quotes, Writing Quotes

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.

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

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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.

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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

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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.

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

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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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

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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

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

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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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

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

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