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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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.

From 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.

From Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

From Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

From Alan Rickman

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

From Alan Rickman

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

From Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

From Alan Rickman

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