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.
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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, Everything

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 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

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
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Hours, Curious, Tricks

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

Long, Before, Wanted

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 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.
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Religion, Human, Situation

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.
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Life, Character, Him

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

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.
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Love, Change, Why

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 would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.
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Sometimes, Acting, Secret

I'd like to direct more operas.
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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
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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.
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Feeling, Thinking, Acting

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?
Simon Callow

Him, Jesus, Why

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

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.
Simon Callow

Real, May, Around

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: June 13, 1949

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