My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours. Alan Rickman More Quotes by Alan Rickman More Quotes From Alan Rickman I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting. Alan Rickman defying done expectations Give me a window and I'll stare out it. Alan Rickman staring giving window I don't play villains, I play very interesting people Alan Rickman play people interesting Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies. Alan Rickman working-life theater lucky I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it. Alan Rickman hate children thinking 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 pie doors thinking With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom. Alan Rickman real mind jobs I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. Alan Rickman swim want desire I like it when stories are left open. Alan Rickman left stories One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman together jobs two I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola. Alan Rickman yogurt live-life home That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. Alan Rickman robin-hood kitchen thieves I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together. Alan Rickman together people thinking I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am. Alan Rickman limitation i-can who-i-am If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. Alan Rickman trampolines suits house Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. Alan Rickman misfits maverick appeals Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent. Alan Rickman focus acting listening I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that. Alan Rickman agents very-good turns I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'. Alan Rickman gremlins forget-you lines One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process. Alan Rickman space mean directors
