“I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my rad...” — Alan Rickman Quote

I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.