Roger Allam : (5)

" I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing ‘I Am What I Am’ in the musical ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It’s like when you see photos of yourself at parties – at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk. " - Roger Allam

" The acting bug first bit when I went to see ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ at the Old Vic. " - Roger Allam

" I don’t know who can constantly afford to go and see things. A play, which has five people in it and one set and it cost you 60 quid? And you’re in a theatre that really hasn’t had a great deal of money spent on it in the last 50 or 60 years? It’s kind of weird. " - Roger Allam

" It must be every critic’s dream when you’re at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop. " - Roger Allam

" Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I do sometimes, so she was being a good friend. " - Roger Allam