89 Quotes by Roger Allam

People are just repeating mantras like, 'get Brexit done,' 'strong and stable,' 'dither and delay'. There must be a way of satirizing it, and I long to see it, but it's gone beyond 'The Thick of It.'

When the National Theatre was built, it was a public building. If you wander round that building now, there are bits hived off for people who pay more money. That's happening across the arts.

I can do posh.

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

Corporate jollies are generally speaking the kiss of death to an audience.

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

I've never been to Barcelona, I'd like to go there; also South America.

I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity.