What I loved about Edinburgh was being able to walk to work through a beautiful place. — Roger Allam Beautiful Copy Share Image
I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity. — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
I've been choreographed in various musicals before. So I'm not completely two left feet. — Roger Allam Dance Copy Share Image
A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid… — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things. — Roger Allam Being Copy Share Image
Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound. — Roger Allam Commitment Copy Share Image
Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I… — Roger Allam Friend Copy Share Image
People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with… — Roger Allam Men Copy Share Image
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… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I loved the variety of acting: turning your hand to different things and bringing whoever you were to it. There is something… — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It… — Roger Allam Beautiful Copy Share Image
I was in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain - the… — Roger Allam Actor Copy Share Image
In the theatre, there were plenty of people having sex all over the place - wanting to, and doing it quite successfully… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
There's a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
What I don't believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I was found in compromising circumstances in a dressing room by a security man. The other person was hiding. — Roger Allam Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again. — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really. — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
Never go dead for a second on stage. Even if you are doing nothing, do it actively. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I've had some bad reviews, but not as bad as the things I could imagine for myself. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different… — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
What is nice about doing a long-running show is finding a language that gives it some depth. — Roger Allam Depth Copy Share Image
As soon as you have two small children, they take up a lot of time and energy. — Roger Allam Children Copy Share Image
I suppose there's a particular kind of efficiency about coming from a theatre tradition. You don't make a fuss, and you're cheap. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
As so many people seem to have done, I kind of fell in love with Willy Brandt. — Roger Allam Brandt Copy Share Image
Lots of people are astounded that I was in the first cast of 'Les Miserables.' Possibly because I look so incredibly youthful. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop. — Roger Allam Dream Copy Share Image
The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic. — Roger Allam Acting Copy Share Image
I've never been to Barcelona, I'd like to go there; also South America. — Roger Allam America Copy Share Image
The main thing about the Globe is there's 700 people all standing right in front of you. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
'La Cage' has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it's also a good, fun show that… — Roger Allam Community Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent,… — Roger Allam Ambitious Copy Share Image
I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they took out the stall seats and you hunkered down on the… — Roger Allam Covent garden Copy Share Image
You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in the theatre nothing is ever finished because you're going to do it all over again tomorrow,… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
