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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Roger Rees Quotes

All this thing that L.A. doesn’t have any love for the theater isn’t true.

– Roger Rees

I’ve learned from the greatest people, and I’ve got wonderful things to pass on.

– Roger Rees

I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one’s lines.

– Roger Rees

I’m astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I’ve met, and the things I didn’t know.

– Roger Rees

I’ve always thought like I’m really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man’s body… but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

– Roger Rees

Rattigan wrote some very good plays.

– Roger Rees

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

– Roger Rees

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it’s best to do it to people who would fill the house.

– Roger Rees

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

– Roger Rees

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn’t mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I’m a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience’s eyes.

– Roger Rees

I used to be the voice of Virgin Atlantic in America, and some people only know me for that.

– Roger Rees

I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby.

– Roger Rees

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

– Roger Rees

It doesn’t seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

– Roger Rees

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don’t allow you to do that.

– Roger Rees

That’s been the tragedy of my life, actually. I’ve always looked younger than I am.

– Roger Rees

If you live in the States, you have to join a gym.

– Roger Rees

Rattigan’s world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play – Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 – should a boy say he didn’t do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son’s honor to his grave.

– Roger Rees

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

– Roger Rees

Everything happens every night for this audience, and it’s a very special occasion to come to the theatre.

– Roger Rees

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

– Roger Rees

Gerry Schoenfeld told me ‘Les Parents Terribles’ was not going to sell, even though we had Kathleen Turner and Jude Law in the cast. So we called it ‘Indiscretions.’

– Roger Rees

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

– Roger Rees

I think like an actor when I’m acting, and I think like a director when I’m directing.

– Roger Rees

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

– Roger Rees

I directed Bebe Neuwirth in ‘Here Lies Jenny’ at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked – the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.

– Roger Rees

I wish I’d played Coriolanus.

– Roger Rees

‘Nicholas Nickleby’ was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

– Roger Rees

I’ve been with Shakespeare all my life.

– Roger Rees

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

– Roger Rees

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