Roger Allam Quotes

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from directors, actors, and so on.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Act because you love to act.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that just fueled it.

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

Everyone knows what a great player, as well as a person, David Beckham is. I am just hoping that I can learn from him. I know if I want to go far in my football career I have to do as well as him.