Top 85 Quotes by Alan Rickman

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

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.

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

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

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.

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

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

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

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.