I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: ‘You’re going to forget your lines’. Alan Rickman Read Quote
It’s a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I’m in. There’s a horrible inescapability to it. Alan Rickman Read Quote
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. Alan Rickman Read Quote
I approach every part I’m asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn’t get it, or if he does? Alan Rickman Read Quote
I’m very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you’re reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. Alan Rickman Read Quote
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. Alan Rickman Read Quote
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience. Alan Rickman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. Alan Rickman Read Quote
