Roger Rees
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
Roger Rees

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

Roger Rees
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
Roger Rees

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

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

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.

Roger Rees
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
Roger Rees

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

Roger Rees
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
Roger Rees

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

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

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

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

I like working with authors who are a bit pesky.

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

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

Roger Rees
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
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
Roger Rees

I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.

Roger Rees
Roger Rees

I love to see people blossom.