Rickman Quotes

on making Love Actually (2003): "We had kind of done all our wedding and we felt like the stars of the show, then sudden you`ve got all these other people with story lines and you think: Excuse me, I know you`re Alan Rickman, but get out of my film, please, thank you."

(When he first realized he wanted to be an actor full-time) I think when I went on to the set of Michael Collins which was the second film that I shot. And it wasn`t even the acting it was that whole atmosphere and suddenly I was on a film set with Liam Neeson and Alan Rickman and Neil Jordan and it was the whole buzz about it and the big cameras and suddenly it was kind of like this is a pretty fucking cool job.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman`s and it didn`t bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.