Roger Rees Quotes

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I was never trained for anything.

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.