Quotes by Roger Rees - Page 2

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.
Roger Rees /
Audience
Lear
Eyes
Hamlet
Macbeth
Perhaps
Rub
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'Nicholas Nickleby' is 800 pages long. At one time, the theater production was 15 hours long. So it's an interesting process, about what you leave out and what you select.
Roger Rees /
One Time
Pages
Select
Time Long Process
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You got paid on Friday, go for a late-night poker game, and have no money on Saturday. But the RSC took your rent out of the paycheck, so at least you had a place to sleep.
Roger Rees /
Friday
Late Night
Paid
Saturday
Least
Paycheck
Poker
Rent
Took
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I'm astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I've met, and the things I didn't know.
Roger Rees /
Me People Way
Astonished
Confident
Pleased
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I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.
Roger Rees /
Affectionate
Cynical
Theatre
Audiences
Interested
Directed
Extremely
Street
Lies
Post
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I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.
Roger Rees /
Royal
Scenery
Drama School
Joined
Lift
No Experience
Shakespeare
Whatsoever
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You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.
Roger Rees /
Bathroom
Best Your People
Fill
Unfortunately
Hamlet
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They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.
Roger Rees /
Nervous
Admit
Go Away
Properly
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I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
Roger Rees /
Artistic
Chasing
Attempt
Possible Thing
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The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.
Roger Rees /
Ambition
Distance
Fool
Recognition
Silliness
Desires
Embraced
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I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.
Roger Rees /
Paint
Time Art Where
Art Student
Unlike
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'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.
Roger Rees /
London
Waiting
Comedies
Plays
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People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.
Roger Rees /
Careers
Implied
Me People Choice
Included
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We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends many people, you know. I also had a Chinese Marc Anthony. I also managed - this caused a great shock - I also got some white guys in it as well!
Roger Rees /
Caribbean
Chinese
Julius
Shock
Caused
Accent
Caesar
Great Black People
Marc
Offends
Predominant
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I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.
Roger Rees /
College
Fine
Great Art
Painter
Prestigious
Arts
Fine Art
Terribly
Schools
Sent
Year Later
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'Merry Wives of Windsor' is a wonderful machine. It's one of the great farces, and it's astonishing to remember that this is written by the same man who wrote 'Hamlet,' 'The Taming of the Shrew' or 'Cymbeline.' It's so similar, and yet the form is so different.
Roger Rees /
Astonishing
Merry
Windsor
Hamlet
Similar
Wives
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My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and 'Peter Pan' was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook.
Roger Rees /
Acquaintance
Art School
Hook
Peter
Wimbledon
Captain
Donald
Earn
Pan
Peter Pan
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Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.
Roger Rees /
Authority
College
Finest
Honor
Humanity
Rhythm
Theater
Programs
Recently
Shakespeare
Verse
Young Kids
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When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.
Roger Rees /
Bangkok
Halfway
Hearing
Hotel
Location
Reception
Yelling
Announced
Award
Dench
Judi Dench
Oriental
Tony
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'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.
Roger Rees /
Active
Constructive
Discussion
Time Best Work
Any Given Moment
Best Time Work
Disparate
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What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it was less like their everyday experiences. So, I'm less interested in internal emotionalism and much more in making the audience laugh and cry by the devices that we use as theater actors.
Roger Rees /
Audience
Cry
Devices
Everyday
Strive
Theater
Interested
Dismiss
Experiences
Internal
Laugh
Recall
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I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.
Roger Rees /
Active
Brushes
Chinatown
Painter
Altogether
Besides
Rearrange
Urge
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Rattigan's world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play - Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 - should a boy say he didn't do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son's honor to his grave.
Roger Rees /
Loyalty
Defense
Honor
Principles
Unwavering
Virtue
Demanded
Grave
Incident
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