104+ Alan Rickman Quotes On Harry Potter, Magnetic And Intense

Alan Rickman was a British actor known for his roles in films such as Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter, and Love Actually. He was known for his deep, resonant voice and his ability to portray a wide range of characters. He passed away in 2016, but his legacy as an actor lives on. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alan Rickman on harry potter, magnetic, intense.

Top 10 Alan Rickman Quotes

1. I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
2. Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
3. If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
4. I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
5. I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
6. I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
7. It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
8. Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
9. Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
10. I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

Alan Rickman Image Quotes

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

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

Alan Rickman Short Quotes

• Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
• Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
• I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
• I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
• What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
• I am the character you are not supposed to like.
• If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
• I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

Alan Rickman Quotes About Life

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

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom. — Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies. — Alan Rickman

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city. — Alan Rickman

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda. — Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman Quotes About Absolutely

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

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial. — Alan Rickman

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

Alan Rickman Quotes About Play

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

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

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

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact. — Alan Rickman

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun. — Alan Rickman

If you judge the character, you cant play it. — Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people — Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. — Alan Rickman

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. — 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 and justifications. — Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman Quotes About Film

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.' — Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it. — Alan Rickman

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

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

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing. — Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman Quotes About Feel

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

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

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

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home. — Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman Famous Quotes And Sayings

And it's a human need to be told stories. 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. — Alan Rickman

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

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. — 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 of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones. — Alan Rickman

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. — Alan Rickman

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon. — 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 of our frailties. — Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. — Alan Rickman

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. — Alan Rickman

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom. — Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?' — Alan Rickman

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. — Alan Rickman

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. — Alan Rickman

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. — Alan Rickman

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months. — 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

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work. — 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 inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something. — Alan Rickman

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

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

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact. — Alan Rickman

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. — Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. — Alan Rickman

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

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

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — 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'm a lot less serious than people think. — Alan Rickman

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre! — Alan Rickman

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. — Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other. — Alan Rickman

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours. — Alan Rickman

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped. — 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 does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? — Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open. — Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. — 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

Parts win prizes, not actors. — 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

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.' — Alan Rickman

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

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process. — Alan Rickman

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

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. — Alan Rickman

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. — Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true. — Alan Rickman

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

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. — Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. — Alan Rickman

I love working in New York theater. — Alan Rickman

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me. — Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience. — Alan Rickman

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically. — Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent. — Alan Rickman

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. — 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 so we might well wonder what we're doing here. — Alan Rickman

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

Life Lessons by Alan Rickman

1. Alan Rickman taught us to never be afraid to take risks and to always strive to be the best version of ourselves.
2. He also showed us the importance of being passionate and dedicated to our craft, no matter what it is.
3. Lastly, he demonstrated the power of resilience and perseverance, even in the face of adversity.