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.
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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.
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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.
I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.