I like the fact that in the theatre nothing is ever finished because you’re going to do it all over again tomorrow, whereas in telly once it’s wrapped and in the can, that’s it. Roger Allam Read Quote
I don’t know who can constantly afford to go and see things. A play, which has five people in it and one set and it cost you 60 quid? And you’re in a theatre that really hasn’t had a great deal of money spent on it in the last 50 or 60 years? It’s kind of weird. Roger Allam Read Quote
But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you’re going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There’s something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time. Roger Allam Read Quote
Many years ago, I was found in compromising circumstances in a dressing room by a security man. The other person was hiding. Roger Allam Read Quote
There’s a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: ‘Well, I’m only 26, but I’ll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear.’ Roger Allam Read Quote