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 think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

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.