On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
ALAN RICKMAN Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play....
ALAN RICKMAN Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a diff...
ALAN RICKMAN I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
ALAN RICKMAN It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of...
ALAN RICKMAN Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, per...
ALAN RICKMAN I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind...
ALAN RICKMAN Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
ALAN RICKMAN I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, ...
ALAN RICKMAN I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
ALAN RICKMAN All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
ALAN RICKMAN Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
ALAN RICKMAN My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
ALAN RICKMAN I can only guess at the pressures of funding an independent theater company in New York, but calling...
ALAN RICKMAN Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.
ALAN RICKMAN The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to te...
ALAN RICKMAN And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no cont...
ALAN RICKMAN I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of f...
ALAN RICKMAN I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
ALAN RICKMAN I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium...
ALAN RICKMAN I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can chang...
ALAN RICKMAN I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
ALAN RICKMAN I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of y...
ALAN RICKMAN Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Ac...
ALAN RICKMAN Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
ALAN RICKMAN I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
ALAN RICKMAN I have a love/hate relationship with white silk.
ALAN RICKMAN I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
ALAN RICKMAN I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word:...
ALAN RICKMAN Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
ALAN RICKMAN Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
ALAN RICKMAN I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
ALAN RICKMAN You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
ALAN RICKMAN One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
ALAN RICKMAN I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that&...
ALAN RICKMAN A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight....
ALAN RICKMAN Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that...
ALAN RICKMAN I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
ALAN RICKMAN I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
ALAN RICKMAN If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
ALAN RICKMAN Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only fi...
ALAN RICKMAN England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally e...
ALAN RICKMAN Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I wa...
ALAN RICKMAN I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. An...
ALAN RICKMAN Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.
ALAN RICKMAN I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face ...
ALAN RICKMAN You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywh...
ALAN RICKMAN If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
ALAN RICKMAN So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
ALAN RICKMAN From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their ow...
ALAN RICKMAN You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the...
ALAN RICKMAN The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
ALAN RICKMAN Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
ALAN RICKMAN It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
ALAN RICKMAN I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
ALAN RICKMAN There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
ALAN RICKMAN If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
ALAN RICKMAN I'm a lot less serious than people think.
ALAN RICKMAN Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it eithe...
ALAN RICKMAN It is very much like voting at a precinct polling place.
DARLENE RICKMAN Anyone who is eligible and in line at the polling place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday will be entitled to vot...
DARLENE RICKMAN We published these findings back in June 2004, and our studies do seem to indicate that the laborato...
JAMES RICKMAN If you think that you or someone you know fits into this category, contact the County Election Board...
DARLENE RICKMAN If voters make mistakes marking their ballots. They should not try to correct those errors.
DARLENE RICKMAN Yes, we did use PCBs, and therefore, the laboratory is probably a contributing source.
JAMES RICKMAN We're doing what we can to mitigate our impacts.
JAMES RICKMAN When Bonaparte<...
THOMAS CLIO RICKMAN Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS [Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct...
ALAN CURRY It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ...
ALAN CURRY The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to...
ALAN CURRY He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake.
ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,
ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi...
ALAN DAVIDSON From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
ALAN DAVIDSON This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards...
ALAN DAVIDSON They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some...
ALAN DAVIDSON it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
ALAN DAVIDSON We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki...
ALAN DAVIDSON I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
ALAN DAVIDSON It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day.
ALAN CROTZER Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong.
ALAN CROTZER If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned.
ALAN CROTZER There ain't no compensation for what they done to me. But I'm not bitter.
ALAN CROTZER Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future,
ALAN CROPSEY When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,
ALAN CROPSEY Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou...
ALAN CROPSEY He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.
ALAN CROPSEY When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not f...
ALAN CRAWFORD You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or th...
ALAN CRAWFORD Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ...
ALAN CULPEPPER The Olympic Games tends to be a little more of a coming together of all the nations, so it's differe...
ALAN CULPEPPER Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure...
ALAN CULPEPPER There was a moment there when we were getting concerned,
ALAN CULPEPPER Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get ...
ALAN CULPEPPER I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people...
ALAN CULPEPPER Every time we tried to get going there was some factor -- weather, wind or turns. I think we all suf...
ALAN CULPEPPER For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare...
ALAN CULPEPPER Basically I'm from the old school. We try to score one run an inning in any fashion. A lot of times ...
ALAN CRAWFORD Our defense has been real inconsistent. We've got five weeks to fix it. Hopefully by district tourna...
ALAN CRAWFORD