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've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

- Alan Rickman

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

- Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

- 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…

- Alan Rickman

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

- Alan Rickman

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

- 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.

- Alan Rickman

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

- Alan Rickman