I’m really interested in the form, putting one piece up against another and finding something corroborative in another voice. I’ve done a lot of that. – Roger Rees
I don’t think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don’t think it’s a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it. – Roger Rees
I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can’t just switch it on and off. – Roger Rees
My first acquaintance with ‘Peter Pan’ was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and ‘Peter Pan’ was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook. – Roger Rees
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. – Roger Rees
I love to argue and share bright ideas in a rehearsal room, and when you live with somebody who is working on the same show, the delight can go on all evening! – Roger Rees
I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I’m still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge. – Roger Rees
No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving. – Roger Rees
People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what’s implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next. – Roger Rees
The hard thing is making sure you work with wonderful people and that you get something out of it so that you can get better as an actor. – 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. – Roger Rees
What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it was less like their everyday experiences. So, I’m less interested in internal emotionalism and much more in making the audience laugh and cry by the devices that we use as theater actors. – Roger Rees
After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, ‘Masquerade,’ where I played a rabbit. I was the lead. – Roger Rees