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
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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.
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
Parts win prizes, not actors.