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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

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.