Roger Allam Quotes

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.

It's a dream to be in a company of 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.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

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.

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.