About Alan Rickman: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time cert...
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of wh...
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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.
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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 doin...
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. They say 'yes' to things; not like the endless 'nos' and 'hrrumphs' you get in England!
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
