Simon Callow Quotes

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

~ Simon Callow

Astounding Bleak House Huge Just Most Piece Poetry Visionary Work

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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

Always Brilliantly Caricatures Cartoons Characters He His People Physique Really Said Voices

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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.

~ Simon Callow

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

~ Simon Callow

Curious He Hours Hours And Hours Just Practising Spent Thing Tricks

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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.

~ Simon Callow

About Anything Books Character Feature Get Him His Kind Life Literary Little Lot Really Scripts Sent Understand Victorian Which

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When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

~ Simon Callow

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Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

~ Simon Callow

Artists Aspects Should Some Themselves

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

~ Simon Callow

Big Big Influence Childhood Escape Fact How In Fact Influence Me Most Plotting Really Spent

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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.

~ Simon Callow

Everything Go Going Gone Human Human Life Life Shakespeare Through Will

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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.

~ Simon Callow

Able Caught Feel Fulfill Glimpse Having I Feel Might Obligation Talent Tremendous Try

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

~ Simon Callow

Actor Actually Before Long Wanted Writer

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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

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I don't have any big regrets.

~ Simon Callow

Any Big Regrets

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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.

~ Simon Callow

Am Answers Any Come Deeply Explain Human I Am Interested Mankind Practise Religion Situation Up

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

~ Simon Callow

Closed Down Everything Growing Growing Up Hated London South Stopped Sundays Up

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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 performance.

~ Simon Callow

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

~ Simon Callow

Actor Away Belfast Months Nine Nine Months Queen Ran Stayed Then University

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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.

~ Simon Callow

Acting Am Critically Depends Ever Had Having I Am Myself Say Secret Secrets Somebody Sometimes Think Without Would You

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I'd like to direct more operas.

~ Simon Callow

Direct Like More Operas

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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

Acting Come Core Feeling Increasingly Most People Say Think Thinking Would

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