89 Quotes by Roger Allam

In 1983 I was still playing small to middling parts.

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is very crowded.

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

As soon as you have two small children, they take up a lot of time and energy.

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

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.

I was nervous about a Corbyn government, although I would have supported it because a lot of the policies were good. I was far more nervous of a Conservative government but here it is, we've just got to deal with it.

I suppose there's a particular kind of efficiency about coming from a theatre tradition. You don't make a fuss, and you're cheap.