Quotes by Simon Callow

About Simon Callow:

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director.
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Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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

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

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I'd like to direct more operas.

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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.

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I don't have any big regrets.

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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 perfo...

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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.

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

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

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

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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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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameSimon Callow
  • DescriptionEnglish actor
  • BornJune 15, 1949
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsScreen Actors Guild Award For Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Motion Picture; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire