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
In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
I love working in New York theater.
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.
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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.