Roger Allam Quotes

Roger Allam

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 26, 1953

That's the thing with acting. There are always loads of people who are more successful, richer, more famous and seemingly able to do anything they want.

Roger Allam

You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do silly gags. Sometimes I feel like a cartoon character.

Roger Allam

Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I do sometimes, so she was being a good friend.

Roger Allam

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

Roger Allam

My chin - I've got another one underneath the first one.

Roger Allam

With those long American TV contracts you think, 'yes, at the end of that I'd be rich.' But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.

Roger Allam

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

Roger Allam

I played Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing' nearly 30 years ago at the RSC, alongside Susan Fleetwood as Beatrice, and I loved every minute.

Roger Allam

I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer to make it look as if I was falling off a bridge. I did it eight times a week for nearly a year and I've had trouble with my knees ever since - they don't even allow me to jog these days.

Roger Allam

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

Roger Allam

I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.

Roger Allam

Many years ago, I was found in compromising circumstances in a dressing room by a security man. The other person was hiding.

Roger Allam

In the theatre, there were plenty of people having sex all over the place - wanting to, and doing it quite successfully - but male violence? Personally, I have witnessed very little. Very, very little.

Roger Allam

People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with - women as well as men do that - but I don't understand violence.

Roger Allam

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

Roger Allam

People are just repeating mantras like, 'get Brexit done,' 'strong and stable,' 'dither and delay'. There must be a way of satirizing it, and I long to see it, but it's gone beyond 'The Thick of It.'

Roger Allam

I like the fact that in the theatre nothing is ever finished because you're going to do it all over again tomorrow, whereas in telly once it's wrapped and in the can, that's it.

Roger Allam

A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid not to be shy.

Roger Allam

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

Roger Allam

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

Roger Allam