Welsh - Actor | May 5, 1944 - July 10, 2015
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
Roger Rees
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I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.
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Daring to love someone is something we all do.
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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.'
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Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.
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I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.
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I was a skinny 17-year-old.
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I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.
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'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.
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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.
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If you live in the States, you have to join a gym.
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I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.
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