I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
Alan RickmanI think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
Alan RickmanI get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
Alan RickmanDo you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.
Alan Rickman