89 Quotes by Roger Allam

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

I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they took out the stall seats and you hunkered down on the floor - I heard Pavarotti in Tosca there, and the experience of being in that same room with that astonishing voice has never left me.

I'm not conscious of having changed my accent.

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

It's glorious to get all your food shopping without having to set foot in Tesco.

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

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.'

I had a serious and rather drunken research session with the great Charles MacLean, who took me through the history of whisky and malts. I can't remember a thing about it now. In fact I don't think I remembered a thing about it the following morning. Very, very entertaining.