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
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.