Welsh - Actor | May 5, 1944 - July 10, 2015
After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, 'Masquerade,' where I played a rabbit. I was the lead.
Roger Rees
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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.
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Sometimes I think I'll go off and be a milkman or a greengrocer, some easy job.
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Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.
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I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.
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My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.
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I just do what I'm asked, really.
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I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.
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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!
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In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.
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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.
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.
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