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

Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.

Roger Rees

'Merry Wives of Windsor' is a wonderful machine. It's one of the great farces, and it's astonishing to remember that this is written by the same man who wrote 'Hamlet,' 'The Taming of the Shrew' or 'Cymbeline.' It's so similar, and yet the form is so different.

Roger Rees

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

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

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

Roger Rees

I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

Roger Rees

I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.

Roger Rees

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

Roger Rees

I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.

Roger Rees

The sense of popularity in an actor is essential.

Roger Rees

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.

Roger Rees

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

Roger Rees

More people saw me in one episode of 'Cheers' than would ever see me in a play.

Roger Rees

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

Roger Rees

I'm really interested in the form, putting one piece up against another and finding something corroborative in another voice. I've done a lot of that.

Roger Rees

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

Roger Rees

The hard thing is making sure you work with wonderful people and that you get something out of it so that you can get better as an actor.

Roger Rees

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

Roger Rees

In Tom Cone's work nothing is easy.

Roger Rees

I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.

Roger Rees