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 laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

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.