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
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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.
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
I like it when stories are left open.
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.