Alan Rickman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.”

“It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.”

“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.”

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

“My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.”

“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.”

“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?”

“I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.”

“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.”