Alan Rickman

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

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

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.