Roger Allam Quotes

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

I started out producing theatre in New York.