Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickmanwas an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and screen. Rickman trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in modern and classical theatre productions. His first big television part came in 1982, but his big break was as the Vicomte de Valmont in the stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, for which he was nominated...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth21 February 1946
CityLondon, England
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.
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.
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.
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.