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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
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
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow
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
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
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
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
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
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
Simon Callow
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
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
To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
Simon Callow
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
Simon Callow
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
Simon Callow
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
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
Simon Callow
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
Simon Callow
I'd like to direct more operas.
Simon Callow
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
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
Simon Callow
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
