I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. - Alan Rickman
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
- Alan Rickman
Give me a window and I'll stare out it. - Alan Rickman
Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people - Alan Rickman
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. - Alan Rickman
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties. - Alan Rickman
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. - Alan Rickman
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across t… - Alan Rickman
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across t…
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. - Alan Rickman
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are. - Alan Rickman
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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