Top 85 Quotes by Alan Rickman

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Parts win prizes, not actors.

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