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 Actively 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 Cheap 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
What is nice about doing a long-running show is finding a language that gives it some depth. — Roger Allam Depth 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
I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre. — Roger Allam Long 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 theatre, there were plenty of people having sex all over the place - wanting to, and doing it quite successfully… — Roger Allam Having sex 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 American 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
Of course I would like to be more famous. It offers more career possibilities. But then it can prove restrictive. Plus you… — Roger Allam Career Copy Share Image
I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting… — Roger Allam Actor 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 Again Copy Share Image
One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you… — Roger Allam Again 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 Anything 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
What I don't believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing. — Roger Allam Believe 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
The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life. — Roger Allam Children Copy Share Image
It's glorious to get all your food shopping without having to set foot in Tesco. — Roger Allam Food Copy Share Image
I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?' — Roger Allam About Copy Share Image
I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness. — Roger Allam Death Copy Share Image
It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is… — Roger Allam City Copy Share Image
Corporate jollies are generally speaking the kiss of death to an audience. — Roger Allam Audience Copy Share Image
Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task. — Roger Allam Embarrassing Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language. — Roger Allam Best 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
I have got a big deep voice, and that comes in useful for villains. — Roger Allam Big Copy Share Image
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
You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do… — Roger Allam Cartoon character 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
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
Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be… — Roger Allam Children Copy Share Image
Practice, learn the lines, work hard, don't be too respectful. Sometimes we can get too hung up on the fact that the… — Roger Allam Hard 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
