The best Quotes by Alan Rickman

The best Quotes by Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and on screen. One of his most famous roles was the one of Severus Snape in the movie adaptions of the Harry Potter books.

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When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, "After all this time?" And I will say: "Always."
(Actor of Severus Snape)
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
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Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.
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Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair.
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The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.
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Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork.
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You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!
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The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.
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Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.
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Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
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I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter.
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Lily: "Does it make a difference, being Muggle-born?"
Severus: "No. It doesn't make any difference."
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"Would you like me to do it now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?"
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Hermione: "I'm sorry, Severus."
Snape looks at her, and then swallows the pain. He indicates Ron with a flick of his head. "Well, at least I'm not married to him."
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Harry: "Where's Snape?"
Ron: "Maybe he's ill!"
Harry: "Maybe he's left!"
Ron: "Or he might have been sacked! I mean, everyone hates him-"
Snape: "Or maybe he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train."
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How extraordinary like your father you are, Potter. He, too, was exceedingly arrogant. A small amount of talent on the Quidditch pitch made him think he was a cut above the rest of us, too. Strutting around the place with his friends and admirers... the resemblance between you is uncanny.
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J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.
Stephen King - about Harry Potter
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Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.
John Green (Author)
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Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.
Grand Pabbie in Frozen -
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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
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Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".
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The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where they're goin'. What matters is deciding to get on.
Conductor in The Polar Express
Tyrion: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it."
Varys: "That is good to hear. Though I'm sure many captains say the same while their ship is afloat."
Lord Varys in Game of Thrones - Season 2 Episode 9
Captains always favor the ship over the crew.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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I can't wait to walk down the aisle and hear those magic words: "this is your captain speaking".
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
Tove Jansson - Moominsummer Madness
School! Then you haven't heard of the easy road to success. I'm speaking, my boy, of the theater. Bright lights, music, applause, fame!
Honest John in Pinocchio
For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.
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Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!
Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf
It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.
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What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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