Alan Rickman Quotes

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

Alan Rickman

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• When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

  

  Victor Borge
  • She
  • Star
  • Appearance

• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • World
  • Man
  • Lucky

• It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Positive

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Born

• It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Painting

• No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Art

• History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

  

  Leonard Cohen

• Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • God
  • Earth

• Creature of special tastes, you do not wait for gout and fame to elevate you to a luxurious jubilee chair, but bear your triumph over the flowering heather, over wildernesses. And you are guilty of nothing: neither of this, that, nor anything..

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Guilty

• A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • Mind
  • Calm
  • Storm

• 'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I don't think I've got an innate sense of style, but I guess I'm influenced by those I love and admire. You hope that you combine those influences in a way that becomes your own.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Hope
  • Style

• There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Work

• The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Time

• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

  

  William Goldman
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Kissing

• Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Science
  • Statistics
  • Hypotheses

• I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother's energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Mother
  • Energy
  • Witch

• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Music
  • Film
  • Features

• The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Effort

• Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Witch
  • Features
  • Debbie Reynolds