Welsh - Actor | May 5, 1944 - July 10, 2015
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
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I love to see people blossom.
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Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.
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I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.
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There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.
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Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.
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The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.
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I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.
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I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.
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I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.
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I wish I'd played Coriolanus.
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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.
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