Roger Allam Quotes

Roger Allam

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 26, 1953

I remember once about 10 years ago when I was injured, having to rehearse, and I was walking with a stick. And I was terribly touched by the amount of people willing to give up a seat. You often hear that London is so brusque and rude, but the grace with which people negotiate incredibly crowded spaces is something rather nice.

Roger Allam

I don't get mobbed in the street or bothered. Well, people do stop and say nice things. 'I like 'Endeavour,' or, 'I loved The Thick of It.'

Roger Allam

It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.

Roger Allam

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this for much longer.'

Roger Allam

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

Roger Allam

I'm not conscious of having changed my accent.

Roger Allam

I don't know who can constantly afford to go and see things. A play, which has five people in it and one set and it cost you 60 quid? And you're in a theatre that really hasn't had a great deal of money spent on it in the last 50 or 60 years? It's kind of weird.

Roger Allam

Never go dead for a second on stage. Even if you are doing nothing, do it actively.

Roger Allam

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

Roger Allam

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

Roger Allam

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

Roger Allam

I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded seats in the gallery for 15 pence, which was the price of a bus fare.

Roger Allam

I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity.

Roger Allam

I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.

Roger Allam

What is nice about doing a long-running show is finding a language that gives it some depth.

Roger Allam

'The Judas Kiss' was really wonderful. I loved that it concentrated on just two events in Wilde's life, and Rupert Everett was top dollar.

Roger Allam

It's glorious to get all your food shopping without having to set foot in Tesco.

Roger Allam

For clothes I go to John Simons on Chiltern Street.

Roger Allam

I had a serious and rather drunken research session with the great Charles MacLean, who took me through the history of whisky and malts. I can't remember a thing about it now. In fact I don't think I remembered a thing about it the following morning. Very, very entertaining.

Roger Allam

What I loved about Edinburgh was being able to walk to work through a beautiful place.

Roger Allam