Roger Rees Quotes

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.'

Roger Rees

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: May 5, 1944 - July 10, 2015

Topics

ParentsMeLawGoingSellCast

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Joe Biden

WorkDepressionYouKnowSayOut

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

John Crowe Ransom

HistoryFreeMadeFormFree Verse

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Ang Lee

MoneyMeetLinesLikeSensitivity

Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.

Alvin E. Roth

EconomicsBetterSeeingCreatingUs

I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.

Robert Crumb

NatureKnowledgeMyselfSpiritual

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

Robbie Robertson

YouChoicePlaceRebellionBandGet

I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.

Ruth Rendell

PeopleThinkCarePaidLikeHappens

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

Rupert Friend

TruthEmpathyStartBelieveYou

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

Mitch Landrieu

LoveStreetRatI Love

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Jon Meacham

WorkGreatPoliticsThinkHouse

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Dennis Rodman

TimeMeCrazyProblemWildBeing

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

Christine O'Donnell

FreedomLieMeAmericaWorthYou

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