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Daring to love someone is something we all do.Collection: Roger
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.'Collection: Roger
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.Collection: Roger
I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.Collection: Roger
I love to see people blossom.Collection: Roger
I was a skinny 17-year-old.Collection: Roger
I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.Collection: Roger
'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.Collection: Roger
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.Collection: Roger
If you live in the States, you have to join a gym.Collection: Roger
I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.Collection: Roger
I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.Collection: Roger
I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.Collection: Roger
My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and 'Peter Pan' was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook.Collection: Roger
I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.Collection: Roger
Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.Collection: Roger
'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.Collection: Roger
What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it was less like their everyday experiences. So, I'm less interested in internal emotionalism and much more in making the audience laugh and cry by the devices that we use as theater actors.Collection: Roger
'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.Collection: Roger
The shields were enormous. In 'Julius Caesar,' I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until I was woken up by applause.Collection: Roger
You got paid on Friday, go for a late-night poker game, and have no money on Saturday. But the RSC took your rent out of the paycheck, so at least you had a place to sleep.Collection: Roger
I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'Collection: Roger
'Nicholas Nickleby' is 800 pages long. At one time, the theater production was 15 hours long. So it's an interesting process, about what you leave out and what you select.Collection: Roger
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.Collection: Roger
It's a vain craft, acting.Collection: Roger
I want to prove that a fat guy can get to 100 still working.Collection: Roger
I would like to be on 'Dancing with the Stars.'Collection: Roger
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.Collection: Roger
There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.Collection: Roger
In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.Collection: Roger
Television is not a gimmick.Collection: Roger
People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.Collection: Roger
I like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.Collection: Roger
I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.Collection: Roger
If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.Collection: Roger
My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.Collection: Roger
I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.Collection: Roger
I'd like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.Collection: Roger
I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.Collection: Roger
If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.Collection: Roger
When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.Collection: Roger
I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.Collection: Roger
If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.Collection: Roger
We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.Collection: Roger
I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.Collection: Roger
I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.Collection: Roger
I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.Collection: Roger
I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.Collection: Roger
I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.Collection: Roger
Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.Collection: Roger