Alan Rickman Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.'