Alan Rickman

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

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

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.

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.

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