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 am the character you are not supposed to like.
Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
Alan Rickman

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Alan Rickman

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

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

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
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'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.
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