Alan Rickman Who Quotations

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

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.