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Roger Rees
Profession : Actor
Birth : May 5, 1944
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We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends many people, you know. I also had a Chinese Marc Anthony. I also managed - this caused a great shock - I also got some white guys in it as well!
Roger Rees
I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.
Roger Rees
There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.
Roger Rees
They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.
Roger Rees
I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.
Roger Rees
So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.
Roger Rees
In Tom Cone's work nothing is easy.
Roger Rees
I like working with authors who are a bit pesky.
Roger Rees
Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.
Roger Rees
Exercising choice is a good thing.
Roger Rees
Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.
Roger Rees
I've been with Shakespeare all my life.
Roger Rees
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.
Roger Rees
It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.
Roger Rees
The sense of popularity in an actor is essential.
Roger Rees
The whole point is it's about getting as many people to come and see the play as you can.
Roger Rees
I used to be the voice of Virgin Atlantic in America, and some people only know me for that.
Roger Rees
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
Roger Rees
The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.
Roger Rees
I'm astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I've met, and the things I didn't know.
Roger Rees
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