Quotes by Roger Allam - Page 2

Of course I would like to be more famous. It offers more career possibilities. But then it can prove restrictive. Plus you get hassled when you go shopping.
Roger Allam /
Offers
Plus
Shopping
Possibilities
Restrictive
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One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.
Roger Allam /
Great Things
Repeating
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It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!
Roger Allam /
Baroque
Curious
Thick
Duck
Sarah
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You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do silly gags. Sometimes I feel like a cartoon character.
Roger Allam /
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Pantomime
Silly
Strange World
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'La Cage' has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it's also a good, fun show that appeals across a broad audience, a great big mixture.
Roger Allam /
Gay Community
Good Fun
Appeal
Good Great Community
Broad
Cage
La
Mixture
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Practice, learn the lines, work hard, don't be too respectful. Sometimes we can get too hung up on the fact that the material of the play is very finely wrought language.
Roger Allam /
Hung
Respectful
Finely
Wrought
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I loved the variety of acting: turning your hand to different things and bringing whoever you were to it. There is something almost amateurish about it that appealed to me.
Roger Allam /
Variety
Appealed
Whoever
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I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.
Roger Allam /
Breath
Park
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I like the fact that in the theatre nothing is ever finished because you're going to do it all over again tomorrow, whereas in telly once it's wrapped and in the can, that's it.
Roger Allam /
Telly
Whereas
Wrapped
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I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded seats in the gallery for 15 pence, which was the price of a bus fare.
Roger Allam /
Gallery
Fare
National Theatre
Padded
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I had done some acting at school, but I wasn't particularly good at it. What inspired me was going to the Old Vic in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the National Theatre was based there.
Roger Allam /
National Theatre
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When the National Theatre was built, it was a public building. If you wander round that building now, there are bits hived off for people who pay more money. That's happening across the arts.
Roger Allam /
Bits
Wander
Money People More
Round
National Theatre
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People are just repeating mantras like, 'get Brexit done,' 'strong and stable,' 'dither and delay'. There must be a way of satirizing it, and I long to see it, but it's gone beyond 'The Thick of It.'
Roger Allam /
Delay
Stable
Strong
Thick
Beyond
Brexit
Long People Way
Repeating
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With those long American TV contracts you think, 'yes, at the end of that I'd be rich.' But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.
Roger Allam /
Contracts
Different Characters
Death Time Long
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That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been any good or not, but I do know that I was never committed enough to find out.
Roger Allam /
Opera
Elicit
Reaction
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In the theatre, there were plenty of people having sex all over the place - wanting to, and doing it quite successfully - but male violence? Personally, I have witnessed very little. Very, very little.
Roger Allam /
Successfully
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Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.
Roger Allam /
Large Scale
Magnificent
Commissioned
Edgar
Great Actor
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When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting's the most natural thing in the world. They take the 'Star Wars' characters and say, 'Let's pretend that I'm Hans and you're Luke and that we're on this planet,' etc.
Roger Allam /
Etc
Luke
Pretend
Natural Thing
Sons
Star Wars
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I was nervous about a Corbyn government, although I would have supported it because a lot of the policies were good. I was far more nervous of a Conservative government but here it is, we've just got to deal with it.
Roger Allam /
Conservative Government
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I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they took out the stall seats and you hunkered down on the floor - I heard Pavarotti in Tosca there, and the experience of being in that same room with that astonishing voice has never left me.
Roger Allam /
Astonishing
Garden
Experience Me Remember
Floor
Stall
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My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.
Roger Allam /
Backgrounds
Terrace
Tin
Working Class
Family Father Parents
Bath
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There's a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: 'Well, I'm only 26, but I'll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear.'
Roger Allam /
Beard
British
Lear
Thinking
Actor
Amateur
American Way
Particularly
Rather
Rep
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I don't know who can constantly afford to go and see things. A play, which has five people in it and one set and it cost you 60 quid? And you're in a theatre that really hasn't had a great deal of money spent on it in the last 50 or 60 years? It's kind of weird.
Roger Allam /
Cost
Five
Theatre
Money Great People
Weird
Afford
Constantly
Deal
Great Deal
Quid
Spent
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I had a serious and rather drunken research session with the great Charles MacLean, who took me through the history of whisky and malts. I can't remember a thing about it now. In fact I don't think I remembered a thing about it the following morning. Very, very entertaining.
Roger Allam /
Entertaining
Remembered
Session
Whisky
Charles
Drunken
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I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing 'I Am What I Am' in the musical 'La Cage aux Folles.' I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It's like when you see photos of yourself at parties - at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk.
Roger Allam /
Clip
Drunk
Glamorous
Cool Time Look
Cage
Dreadful
La
Listened
Photos
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Bizarrely, someone involved in the children's show 'Sarah and Duck,' which I narrate, recently found a coat with my name on it in a secondhand shop. It's the coat I wore as Theseus in the 'Dream.' So it's back in my possession after all these years, which is rather strange and wonderful.
Roger Allam /
Involved
Possession
Strange
Coat
Duck
Shop
Recently
Sarah
Secondhand
Wore
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I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer to make it look as if I was falling off a bridge. I did it eight times a week for nearly a year and I've had trouble with my knees ever since - they don't even allow me to jog these days.
Roger Allam /
Limbo
Bridge
Falling
Jog
Leaning
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But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.
Roger Allam /
Odd
Satisfying
Life Nature Time
Exactly What
Hugely
Pattern
Relaxing
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I remember once about 10 years ago when I was injured, having to rehearse, and I was walking with a stick. And I was terribly touched by the amount of people willing to give up a seat. You often hear that London is so brusque and rude, but the grace with which people negotiate incredibly crowded spaces is something rather nice.
Roger Allam /
Crowded
Grace
Injured
Touched
Seat
Terribly
Negotiate
Rehearse
Spaces
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