Alan Rickman

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

— Alan Rickman

I love working in New York theater.

— Alan Rickman

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

— Alan Rickman

Parts win prizes, not actors.

— Alan Rickman

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

— Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

— Alan Rickman

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

— Alan Rickman

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

— Alan Rickman

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

— Alan Rickman

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

— Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

— Alan Rickman

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

— Alan Rickman

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

— Alan Rickman

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

— Alan Rickman

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

— Alan Rickman

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

— Alan Rickman

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.

— Alan Rickman

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

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die…

— Alan Rickman

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

— Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what…

— Alan Rickman

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

— Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either…

— Alan Rickman

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition…

— Alan Rickman

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

I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware…

— Alan Rickman

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more…

— Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of,…

— Alan Rickman

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each…

— Alan Rickman

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.…

— Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes…

— Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But…

— Alan Rickman

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the…

— Alan Rickman

Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in…

— Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

— Alan Rickman

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

— Alan Rickman

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

— Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

— Alan Rickman

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

— Alan Rickman

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

— Alan Rickman