A biography for Alan Rickmanhasn’t been written yet.
“ככל שאנחנו נשלטים על ידי אידיוטים ומאבדים שליטה על הגורל שלנו, אנחנו צריכים לספר זה לזה יותר סיפורים בנוגע למי אנחנו, למה אנחנו, מאיפה הגענו ומה יכול להיות אפשרי.”
“אני חושב שיש קשר כלשהו בין משמעת מוחלטת לחופש מוחלט.”
“לוס אנג'לס היא לא עיירה מלאה בכלי אוויר. יש שם הרבה אנרגיה נפלאה.”
“אני כן לוקח את העבודה שלי ברצינות והדרך לעשות זאת היא לא לקחת את עצמך יותר מדי ברצינות.”
“All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.”
“Actors are actually very supportive of each other.”
“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.”
“I am the character you are not supposed to like.”
“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 always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.”
“I like it when stories are left open.”
“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.”
“Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.”
“Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'”
“My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.”
“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.”
“Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.”