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Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.
Roger Rees
Get
Anything
Theatrical
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
You
Chasing
Think
Our
Spend
Possible
Possible Thing
Point
Attempt
Perfection
Reach
Artistic
Moving
Lives
Thing
Rattigan wrote some very good plays.
Roger Rees
Good
Some
Wrote
Very
Plays
Rattigan's world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play - Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 - should a boy say he didn't do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son's honor to his grave.
Roger Rees
Time
Loyalty
Trust
Son
Writing
World
Father
Honor
Believe
Defense
Took
Virtue
Say
Would
About
Something
Take
He
Demanded
Him
Principles
Unwavering
Boy
His
Place
Should
Incident
Grave
Play
British
I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby.
Roger Rees
Played
I am an anthologist, you see. I sort of make anthologies for people.
Roger Rees
You
People
See
Make
Sort
Am
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.
Roger Rees
Art
Time
You
Wonderful
Unlike
Student
Talk
Boy
Art Student
Very
Just
Being
Where
Anyone
Really
Paint
Paintings
Actor
I just do what I'm asked, really.
Roger Rees
Just
Asked
Really
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
Love
You
Somebody
Live
Delight
Argue
Share
Ideas
Go
Same
Room
Working
Show
Who
Rehearsal
Evening
Bright
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
You
Strange
Wonderful
World
Remember
Back
Location
Someone
Area
Had
Hotel
Announced
Halfway
Around
Judi Dench
Coming
Doing
Dench
Hearing
Yelling
Won
Bangkok
Movie
Across
Oriental
Award
Reception
Tony
If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.
Roger Rees
Today
Alive
Shakespeare
He
Doing
Were
Sitcoms
Television is an important part of how we communicate.
Roger Rees
Communicate
Important
Television
Part
Important Part
How
All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.
Roger Rees
Love
True
Any
Theater
Thing
We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends many people, you know. I also had a Chinese Marc Anthony. I also managed - this caused a great shock - I also got some white guys in it as well!
Roger Rees
Great
You
People
Black
White
Caribbean
Some
Guys
Had
Caesar
Know
Also
Well
Accent
Got
Caused
Julius
Julius Caesar
Offends
Shock
Did
Which
Predominant
Chinese
Many
Marc
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
Eyes
Old
Mind
King
Macbeth
King Lear
Perhaps
Well
Lear
Audience
Doing
Hamlet
Want
Again
Little
Play
Rub
They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.
Roger Rees
Better
Thought
Nervous
Go Away
Must
Admit
About
Properly
Rather
Voice
Never
Had
Since
Terrible
Learn
Said
How
Making
Go
Use
Away
I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.
Roger Rees
Thought
Remembering
Lines
Going
Just
Acting
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
Fool
Ambition
Enough
Distance
Recognition
Embraced
Silliness
Because
Loser
His
Person
Just
Being
Race
Certain
England
Keep
Desires
So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.
Roger Rees
Remember
Nervous
Later
Learned
Being
Suddenly
Actor
It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.
Roger Rees
Religion
You
Seem
Shakespeare
Him
Turn
Works
You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.
Roger Rees
Best
You
Generation
People
Stage
Bathroom
Out
Would
Come
House
Hamlet
Unfortunately
Might
Your
Who
Fill
I used to be the voice of Virgin Atlantic in America, and some people only know me for that.
Roger Rees
Me
People
Some People
Atlantic
Some
Only
Voice
Know
America
Used
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
Roger Rees
History
Suffering
Past
Until
Learn
Us
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.
Roger Rees
Me
History
South Africa
Has-Been
Seeing
Excited
Know
Course
Context
Been
South
End
Africa
Apartheid
Now
I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.
Roger Rees
People
Wonderful
Learned
Greatest
Pass
Got
Wonderful Things
Things
I was a skinny 17-year-old.
Roger Rees
Skinny
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