Alan Rickman Quotes

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Great
  • Me
  • Nobody

• God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • God
  • Character
  • Enough

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Play
  • Like
  • Story

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Good
  • Husband
  • New

• I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Like
  • Animal
  • Name

• George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Summer
  • Feminist

• Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • You
  • Wants
  • Apple

• It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

  

  Ma Long
  • Privilege
  • Teammates
  • Footsteps

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Water

• My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

  

  Petra Stunt
  • Parents
  • Brought
  • Housework

• I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People

• As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Brother

• Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

  

  Paul Arden
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Parents
  • Accident
  • Theatrer