89 Quotes by Roger Allam

Playing a villain would be great.

It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.

I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer to make it look as if I was falling off a bridge. I did it eight times a week for nearly a year and I've had trouble with my knees ever since - they don't even allow me to jog these days.

Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I do sometimes, so she was being a good friend.

It's nice to have the creature comforts of home.

I don't get mobbed in the street or bothered. Well, people do stop and say nice things. 'I like 'Endeavour,' or, 'I loved The Thick of It.'

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

Never go dead for a second on stage. Even if you are doing nothing, do it actively.

My chin - I've got another one underneath the first one.