Roger Rees Quotes

Roger Rees

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 5, 1944

I love to see people blossom.

Roger Rees

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.

Roger Rees

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

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I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

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I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

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Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.

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I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

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I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

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I wish I'd played Coriolanus.

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I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.

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Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

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Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

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No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.

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I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

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Arthur Winslow is one of the great parts.

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Rattigan wrote some very good plays.

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Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan's very human characters help us do that.

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Rattigan's world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play - Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 - should a boy say he didn't do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son's honor to his grave.

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That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

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I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby.

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