Alan Rickman movie quotes

“- Colonel Brandon: Your sister seems very happy.
- Elinor Dashwood: Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.”
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Elinor Dashwood: The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
- Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon

“Christmas shopping, never an easy or a pleasant task.”
Alan Rickman - Harry

“Some men are born in the wrong century. I think I was born on the wrong continent.”
Alan Rickman - Elliott Marston

“- Bethany: What's he like?
- Metatron: God? Lonely. But funny. He's got a great sense of humor. Take sex for example. There's nothing funnier than the ridiculous faces you people make mid-coitus.
- Bethany: Sex is a joke in heaven?
- Metatron: The way I understand it, it's mostly a joke down here, too.”
Linda Fiorentino - Bethany
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“Remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes... and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Rickman - Richis

“The Irish people established the Irish Republic. It can only be disestablished by the Irish people.”
Alan Rickman - Eamon de Valera

“- Margaret: Have you really been to the East Indies, Colonel?
- Colonel Brandon: I have.
- Margaret: What's it like?
- Sir John Middleton: Like? Hot.
- Colonel Brandon: The air is full of spices.”
Emilie François - Margaret Dashwood
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon
Robert Hardy - Sir John Middleton

“- Elliott Marston: [referring to his own weapon] An experimental weapon with experimental ammunition.
- Matthew Quigley: You could call it that.
- Elliott Marston: Let's experiment.”
Alan Rickman - Elliott Marston
Tom Selleck - Matthew Quigley

“- Nick Starkey: Ed, I think it'd be best if you don't come in the apartment.
- Ed: You got it. I'm an artist. I'll watch the woman.”

Kevin Kline - Nick Starkey
Alan Rickman - Ed

“Just a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it?
[Scribe nods] That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.”
Alan Rickman - Sheriff George of Nottingham

“- Jamie: I blame the government.
- Nina: What?
- Jamie: The government.
- Nina: What's the government got to do with anything?
- Jamie: I hate the bastards.”
Alan Rickman - Jamie
Juliet Stevenson - Nina

“- Grigori Rasputin: The sea brings comfort, and the waves they talk. The sunshines on the water as it gently rises. You can see the face of God when you look at the sun. Your soul forgets everything as you wake from the dreams of life's worries. For the joy lifts your heart, and your soul sees the wisdom of life, and beauty. Indescribable...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Rickman - Grigori Rasputin
Freddie Findlay - Alexei

“- Victim: Your aim is to humiliate and debase a human being, there is no justification for cruelty.
- Interrogator: Our aim is to rid society of negative influences. That aim justifies the use of certain unorthodox means.”
Madeleine Stowe - Victim
Alan Rickman - Interrogator

“- Sadie Hawkins: You've never worked under a female superior before. I got to where I am by pushing paper and playing nice - I've never actually fired a gun before, I'm only in this job to prove to my father I'm not a coward. I give decent head, so I got promoted before all the worthy candidates, all of them men, all of them equally gifted at...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Thompson - FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Alan Rickman - Detective David Friedman

“- Severus Snape: It appears there is a connection between the Dark Lord's mind and your own. Whether he is, as yet, aware of this connection is for the moment unclear. Pray he remains ignorant.
- Harry Potter: You mean if he knows about it then, he'll be able to read my mind.
- Severus Snape: Read it, control it, unhinge it.”
Alan Rickman - Severus Snape
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

“- Alexander Dane: I played Richard III.
- Fred Kwan: Five curtain calls...
- Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.”
Alan Rickman - Alexander Dane
Tony Shalhoub - Fred Kwan

“You kiss me, you kiss God. You lie with me, you lie with him.”
Alan Rickman - Grigori Rasputin

“- John McClane: You now how to use a handgun, Bill?
- Hans Gruber: I spent a weekend at a combat ranch. You know where they shoot red paint, but it sounds stupid to you.
- John McClane: Well, time for the real thing, Bill. All you gotta do is pull the trigger.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Alan Rickman - Hans Gruber

“- Rufus: So what do we do now?
- Metatron: Well, I say we get drunk, because I'm all out of ideas.”
Chris Rock - Rufus
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“- Grigori Rasputin: You'll always fail because your soul is dead.
- Dr. Botkin: I have performed many autopsies in my time, but I've never located a soul.
- Grigori Rasputin: How many memories or emotions have you found?”
Alan Rickman - Grigori Rasputin
David Warner - Dr. Botkin

“If you should decide to stop being selfish and accept your responsibility, you won't be alone. You'll have support.”

Alan Rickman - Metatron

“- Alexander Dane: You're just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its motivation?
- Jason Nesmith: It's a rock monster. It doesn't have motivation.
- Alexander Dane: See, that's your problem, Jason. You were never serious about the craft.”
Alan Rickman - Alexander Dane
Tim Allen - Jason Nesmith

“Angels are ill-equipped. See? I'm as anatomically impaired as a Ken doll.”
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“- Jamie: Thank you for missing me.
- Nina: I have. I do.”
Alan Rickman - Jamie
Juliet Stevenson - Nina