Alan Rickman

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.