Roger Allam

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

— Roger Allam

My chin - I've got another one underneath the first one.

— Roger Allam

Playing a villain would be great.

— Roger Allam

I'm not conscious of having changed my accent.

— Roger Allam

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

It's nice to have the creature comforts of home.

— Roger Allam

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

— Roger Allam

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

— Roger Allam

What I don't believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing.

— Roger Allam

Many years ago, I was found in compromising circumstances in a dressing room by a security man. The other person was hiding.

— Roger Allam

A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid…

— Roger Allam

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

— Roger Allam

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

— Roger Allam

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.

— Roger Allam

I have got a big deep voice, and that comes in useful for villains.

— Roger Allam

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

I loved the variety of acting: turning your hand to different things and bringing whoever you were to it. There is something…

— Roger Allam

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It…

— Roger Allam

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

I was in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain - the…

— Roger Allam

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

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

Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I…

— Roger Allam

I remember once about 10 years ago when I was injured, having to rehearse, and I was walking with a stick. And…

— Roger Allam

I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer…

— Roger Allam

I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing 'I Am What I Am' in the musical 'La Cage…

— Roger Allam

“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as…

— Roger Allam

Bizarrely, someone involved in the children's show 'Sarah and Duck,' which I narrate, recently found a coat with my name on it…

— Roger Allam

I had a serious and rather drunken research session with the great Charles MacLean, who took me through the history of whisky…

— Roger Allam

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going…

— Roger Allam

“Italy still has a provincial sophistication that comes from its long history as a collection of city states. That, combined with a…

— Roger Allam

“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than…

— Roger Allam

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

— Roger Allam

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

— Roger Allam

I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.

— Roger Allam

I have a glass of wine. Red. Generally when I'm cooking.

— Roger Allam

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

— Roger Allam

For clothes I go to John Simons on Chiltern Street.

— Roger Allam

Theatre has been a part of my education as much as anything else.

— Roger Allam