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.

— Alan Rickman

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

— Alan Rickman

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

— Alan Rickman

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

— Alan Rickman

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

— Alan Rickman

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'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

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

— Alan Rickman

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

— Alan Rickman

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

— Alan Rickman