Madly, Deeply Quotes

“I hate it when my head, heart and aspirations are filled to the brim only with career. The rest of me hangs around like a jacket on the back of a doorknob.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Jurassic Park—what the hell is the plot? Great dinosaurs.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“I am surrounded by people nervous of their own opinions.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Completely knackered. All that politeness.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“I wish these lounges weren’t so devoted to the bored & boring. Perhaps there could be a door marked Eccentrics and Weirdos Only.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“The hotel is just Budapest, America. Imported phones, lamps, cupboards etc. God forbid Americans should feel they are somewhere ELSE.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Is this control, depression or exhaustion?”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“I must try not to be sucked into other people’s problems when all it does is drain my energy.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“It seems sometimes to be in the stars that some days are peaceful and some are manic.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Alan. You never knew if you were going to be kissed or unsettled. But you couldn’t wait to see what would come next.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“7:15 Montpelier - excellent dinner. Would have been perfect if only I'd had a handgun for the other guests: 'Of course communism was always bound to fail.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“The trouble with death is that there is no next. There is only what was and for that I am profoundly and heartbrokenly grateful.”
― Emma Thompson, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Awake trying to locate one worthwhile, nameable emotion that deserves this sleeplessness”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Good food but on my top ten hate list would be over-attentive waiters – I like watching my wine glass get emptier. I am close to slapping the arm of the next waiter who refills my glass after every sip.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Jurassic Park - what the hell is the plot? Great dinosaurs.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Favoured holiday destinations were the Caribbean and South Africa.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“That’s it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Alan was the ultimate ally. In life, art and politics. I trusted him absolutely. He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Re-reading some pages of this diary is like looking at a graph of an exhausted mind.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Actors are great people, and special and funny & self-denigrating, so fuck you anyone who disagrees.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“I want something to come at me not to be always looking, probing, hoping, reaching.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“He was generous and challenging. Dangerous and comical. Sexy and androgynous. Virile and peculiar. Temperamental and languid. Fastidious and casual.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“We stopped in Montreal for an hour then on to Pittsburgh and the William Penn Hotel. The burst through that tunnel still as thrilling.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Apart from that his mind as quixotic and lightning sharp as always.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“The trouble with death is that there is no next.”
― Emma Thompson, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Sometimes the sensation of being a personal launderette service—friendship must not become a space for indulgence. Listening to casting problems, rehearsal problems, photograph problems. There is a point at which they walk away stronger and you are exhausted. This cannot be right …”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“We are our own worst enemies when we take ourselves that seriously. But then the world wants to film it. Apes picking fleas from each other.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Talking with journalists always leaves me feeling uneasy and a little like those tribes who don’t like having photos taken because they’re giving away their souls. But today there is a strong sense of colliding with one’s destiny.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“He met Rima Horton when she was fifteen and he was a year older; both were keen on amateur dramatics. Friends for several years, they became a couple around 1970 and remained together for the rest of Alan’s life, marrying in 2012.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman