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If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
Quote by -Roger Rees
They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.
Quote by -Roger Rees
That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.
Quote by -Roger Rees
You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.
Quote by -Roger Rees
The shields were enormous. In 'Julius Caesar,' I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until I was woken up by applause.
Quote by -Roger Rees
I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'
Quote by -Roger Rees
There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.
Quote by -Roger Rees
No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.
Quote by -Roger Rees
I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
Quote by -Roger Rees
Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan's very human characters help us do that.
Quote by -Roger Rees
I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.
Quote by -Roger Rees
I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.
Quote by -Roger Rees
Sometimes I think I'll go off and be a milkman or a greengrocer, some easy job.
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I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.
Quote by -Roger Rees
Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.
Quote by -Roger Rees
I'm astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I've met, and the things I didn't know.
Quote by -Roger Rees
Gerry Schoenfeld told me 'Les Parents Terribles' was not going to sell, even though we had Kathleen Turner and Jude Law in the cast. So we called it 'Indiscretions.'
Quote by -Roger Rees
I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.
Quote by -Roger Rees
'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.
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I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.
Quote by -Roger Rees
'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.
Quote by -Roger Rees
What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it was less like their everyday experiences. So, I'm less interested in internal emotionalism and much more in making the audience laugh and cry by the devices that we use as theater actors.
Quote by -Roger Rees
'Nicholas Nickleby' is 800 pages long. At one time, the theater production was 15 hours long. So it's an interesting process, about what you leave out and what you select.
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My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.
Quote by -Rupert Friend
I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.
Quote by -Rupert Friend