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

Alan Rickman

Discipline

Connection

Freedom

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

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

Alan Rickman

Art

Life

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

Alan Rickman

Life

Indecision

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

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

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

Alan Rickman

Apathy

England

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

Alan Rickman

Word

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

Alan Rickman

Right

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

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

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

Time

Conversation

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

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

Alan Rickman

England