The best Quotes by Alan Rickman

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)

Quotes about Harry Potter

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.

Stories

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

Mind vs. Heart

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Traveling Trains Ships Airplanes

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Talent

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

Decisions

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.

Actors Theatre

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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.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Life

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry James Potter Spirit Funny Insults

Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Head

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.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Seriousness

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Ghosts

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.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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."

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Lily: "Does it make a difference, being Muggle-born?"
Severus: "No. It doesn't make any difference."

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Lily Potter Muggles

Snape: "Hide them all, then. Keep her - them - safe. Please."
Dumbledore: "And what will you give me in return, Severus?"
Snape: "In - return? Anything."

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"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?"

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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."

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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

Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

John Green (Author)

Quotes about Harry Potter

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Stories Writing

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Bob Dylan

Falling in love Mind vs. Heart

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

Traveling

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

Books Traveling World

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Jules Verne

Trains

One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where they're goin'. What matters is deciding to get on.

Conductor in The Polar Express

Trains

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

Ships

Captains always favor the ship over the crew.

Pyke, the Bloodharbor Ripper in League of Legends

Ships

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Ambition Airplanes

I can't wait to walk down the aisle and hear those magic words: "this is your captain speaking".

Airplanes

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne K. Rowling

Talent

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.

Frank Sinatra

Happiness Self-Confidence Talent

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions Morality

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

Actors

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Jessica Chastain

Actors

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

Theatre

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

Theatre

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

Laughing & Smile

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.

Emma Watson

Fear

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

Self-Confidence

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.

Orson Welles

Men & Women

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

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