About Alan Rickman: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor.
Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.
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.
When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, 'After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always.
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
