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.
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.
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.
I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Give me a window and I'll stare out it.