Roger Allam Quotes

Roger Allam

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 26, 1953

It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different kinds of things.

Roger Allam

Corporate jollies are generally speaking the kiss of death to an audience.

Roger Allam

I've been choreographed in various musicals before. So I'm not completely two left feet.

Roger Allam

The main thing about the Globe is there's 700 people all standing right in front of you.

Roger Allam

Practice, learn the lines, work hard, don't be too respectful. Sometimes we can get too hung up on the fact that the material of the play is very finely wrought language.

Roger Allam

I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing 'I Am What I Am' in the musical 'La Cage aux Folles.' I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It's like when you see photos of yourself at parties - at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk.

Roger Allam

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

Roger Allam

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

Roger Allam

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

Roger Allam

As so many people seem to have done, I kind of fell in love with Willy Brandt.

Roger Allam

Of course I would like to be more famous. It offers more career possibilities. But then it can prove restrictive. Plus you get hassled when you go shopping.

Roger Allam

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

Roger Allam

The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.

Roger Allam

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

Roger Allam

When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting's the most natural thing in the world. They take the 'Star Wars' characters and say, 'Let's pretend that I'm Hans and you're Luke and that we're on this planet,' etc.

Roger Allam

Bizarrely, someone involved in the children's show 'Sarah and Duck,' which I narrate, recently found a coat with my name on it in a secondhand shop. It's the coat I wore as Theseus in the 'Dream.' So it's back in my possession after all these years, which is rather strange and wonderful.

Roger Allam

In 1983 I was still playing small to middling parts.

Roger Allam

It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is very crowded.

Roger Allam

As soon as you have two small children, they take up a lot of time and energy.

Roger Allam

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.

Roger Allam