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 Read Quote
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-’80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club – or whatever the music was at that time – would not have been on my agenda. Alan Rickman Read Quote
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we’re in deep trouble. Alan Rickman Read Quote
I have every sympathy for writers. It’s a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, ‘I’m not saying that’ or, ‘How about we move this to here? Wouldn’t that make that bit of the story better?’ But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. Alan Rickman Read Quote
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There’s a great deal of wonderful energy there. They say ‘yes’ to things; not like the endless ‘nos’ and ‘hrrumphs’ you get in England! Alan Rickman Read Quote
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, ‘I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.’ Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. Alan Rickman Read Quote
I was a student in London in the ’70s, so CBGB really wasn’t on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn’t stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones. Alan Rickman Read Quote
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. Alan Rickman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
