Alan Rickman Quotes
I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
-
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
-
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
-
I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
-
I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
-
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
-
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
-
It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
-
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
-
I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
-
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
-
In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
-
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-
I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
-
Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
-
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
-
The UFC are doing a tremendous job of promoting the sport worldwide. The views about the sport haven't always been so positive here in the Holland, but it's nice to see change and to see the UFC come to Holland, and everyone been really enthusiastic about it.
-
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
-
We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.
-
Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
-
If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.
-
I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
