Alan Rickman quotes

Born
21 February 1946, London, England.

Died
14 January 2016.

Occupation
Actor.

Alan Rickman was a British actor and director. He is known for his distinctive voice and for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, as well as other iconic roles in movies as  Die Hard (1988), Sense and Sensibility and Sweeney Todd. He was awarded several times throughout his career, including a BAFTA, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe.

Movies
Die Hard (1988)

Talent is an accident of genes – and a responsibility.
– Alan Rickman

Parts win prizes, not actors.
– Alan Rickman

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
– Alan Rickman

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

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

Give me a window and I’ll stare out it.
– Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.  
– Alan Rickman

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

There’s a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.  
– Alan Rickman

I can only see my limitations. That’s just who I am.
– 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

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

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

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

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