Roger Allam Quotes

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Self-realization is great.

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

Art helped give me confidence.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

Good things will come from self-expression.

My personal life is also cinema.

It was only after a visit to a learning centre, where they taught me public speaking, that my personality emerged.

Education brings a sense of confidence and self-worth to yourself.

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.