About Alan Rickman: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor.
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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.
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
I love working in New York theater.
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'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the en...
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is ...
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
