Simon Callow Quotes

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
Simon Callow

Themselves, Artists, Aspects

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Callow

Work, Poetry, House

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow

Big, Fact, Influence

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
Simon Callow

Life, Human, Through

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
Simon Callow

Try, Able, Talent

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
Simon Callow

Hours, Curious, Tricks

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
Simon Callow

Long, Before, Wanted

I don't have any big regrets.
Simon Callow

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow

Religion, Human, Situation

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
Simon Callow

Down, Growing, London

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
Simon Callow

Away, Actor, Months

I'd like to direct more operas.
Simon Callow

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
Simon Callow

Great, Acting, Makes

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
Simon Callow

Feeling, Thinking, Acting

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
Simon Callow

Jesus, Impression, Affected

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Simon Callow

Teacher, Mother, Wanted

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Simon Callow

Heart, Human, Social

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow

King, Dementia, Lear

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
Simon Callow

Life, Live, Person

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
Simon Callow

Evening, Again, Often

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Simon Callow

Happy, Children, Parents

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
Simon Callow

Said, Characters, Voices

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
Simon Callow

Life, Great, Him

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.
Simon Callow

Lonely, Bored, Short

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
Simon Callow

Life, Character, Him

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: June 13, 1949

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