Alan Rickman Quotes
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.
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Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
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I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.
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We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
