85 Quotes by Roger Rees

The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

Sometimes I think I'll go off and be a milkman or a greengrocer, some easy job.

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

Rattigan wrote some very good plays.

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

The sense of popularity in an actor is essential.

Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan's very human characters help us do that.