Quotes by Alan Rickman

“Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.”

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

“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.”

“Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.”

“Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.”

“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.”

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

“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 ...”

“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.”

“I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.”

“I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.”

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

“It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”

“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.”

“Meanwhile the dreaded press and even in the unit publicist the unstoppable desire to compare one job with another—was X more difficult than Y? No, X=X and Y=Y. Don't be lazy.”

“I realise as soon as that [Snape's] ring and costume go on—something happens. It becomes alien to be chatty, smiley, open. The character narrows me down, tightens me up. Not good qualities on a fil...”

“I'm pretty sure he came and saw everything I ever did on stage both in London and New York. He didn't have to do that.”