Quote

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

Alan Rickman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Graphic Designer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
Rickman
Littles
Little
Life
Robust
Tender
Tenderness
Art

More quotes by Alan Rickman

Image
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
Alan Rickman
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
Alan Rickman
Image
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman
Image
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Alan Rickman
Image
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Alan Rickman
Image
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
Alan Rickman
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Alan Rickman
Image
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
Image
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
Alan Rickman
Image
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
Image
On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
Alan Rickman
Image
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Alan Rickman
Image
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
Alan Rickman
Image
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
Alan Rickman
Image
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
Alan Rickman
Image
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
Alan Rickman