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Roger Bart Quotes

It’s kind of fun to be a clown. I’ve always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.

– Roger Bart

I wasn’t really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents’ disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

– Roger Bart

There’s nothing more instructive than the immediate response of an audience.

– Roger Bart

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn’t really get credit for those.

– Roger Bart

I’m a huge fan of Warner Brothers cartoons. I would spend many hours alone after school watching Daffy Duck. I think Daffy Duck is one of the great comedic villains.

– Roger Bart

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

– Roger Bart

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.

– Roger Bart

There’s something about that relationship between actor and audience. Whether you get it on Broadway or in a fine local playhouse, there’s no greater drug. Every time I get to do TV, film and a play in the same year, it’s my dream come true.

– Roger Bart

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting… I’m not sure why.

– Roger Bart

I think it’s really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There’s nothing else like it.

– Roger Bart

These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It’s my church and raises my spirit. It’s good for my soul.

– Roger Bart