All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference.… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact. — Alan Rickman Copy Share
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape… — Alan Rickman Copy Share
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. — Alan Rickman Copy Share
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble. — Alan Rickman Copy Share
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting. — Alan Rickman Copy Share
The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't. — Alan Rickman Copy Share
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is… — Alan Rickman Copy Share
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less… — Alan Rickman Copy Share
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned… — Alan Rickman Copy Share
I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with… — Alan Rickman Copy Share
