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
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.
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
Parts win prizes, not actors.
I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.