Roger Allam Quotes

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

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.

I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

I have always loved Broadway.

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

In 1954 I was on Broadway for five months in 'The Matchmaker' and went once a week to the classes of Uta Hagen, a theatrical guru whose teaching in retrospect illuminated the whole of my training at the Old Vic.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cats, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Wicked, you name it!

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.