Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman

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

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
Alan Rickman

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
Alan Rickman

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
Alan Rickman

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Alan Rickman

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Alan Rickman

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

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman

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

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

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman

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

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
Alan Rickman

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

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

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman

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

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