All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

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• Alan Rickman:

  Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together

• Alan Rickman:

  I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

• Alan Rickman:

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

• Alan Rickman:

  I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

• Alan Rickman:

  I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

• Alan Rickman:

  I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

• Alan Rickman:

  I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

• Alan Rickman:

  I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

• Alan Rickman:

  I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

• Alan Rickman:

  If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.