Simon Callow Quotes

• To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

  Simon Callow

  Space, Imagination, Theatre

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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.

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  Childhood, Facts, Influence

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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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  Gone, Human Life, Humans

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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.

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  Lonely, Bored, Sometimes

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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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  Trying, Glimpse, Might

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

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  Life Is, Weird Things, Persons

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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.

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  Theatre, Way, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Facts, Born, Sanguine

  "A life in the arts: Simon Callow". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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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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  Acting, Needs, Actors

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• Hace unos años, cuando la BBC decidió recuperar Doctor Who como largometraje, un periódico nacional realizó una encuesta para preguntar a sus lectores quién debería ser el nuevo Doctor, y yo quedé en cabeza.

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  Doctors, Years, Film

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

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  Growing Up, Sunday, Down And

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• The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

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  Responsibility, Elderly, Blood

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• Muchos actores han protestado por los teléfonos móviles apagados en los teatros, pero la verdadera amenaza ahora es la gente que envía mensajes de texto durante una función. Puede que solo moleste a algunas personas a su alrededor, pero a mí, como actor, cuando les veo contestando a sus correos electrónicos, me indigno.

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  Real, Phones, People

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• 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.

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  Children, Struggle, Anxiety

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

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  Cheer, Children, Grieving

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

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  Weekend, Afternoon, Evening

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

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  Long, Actors, Wanted

  "A life in the arts: Simon Callow" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2011.

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

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  Kings, Needs, Dementia

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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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  Queens, Actors, Nine

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• I'd like to direct more operas.

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  Opera, Direct

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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.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Sentimientos

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

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  Jesus, Personality, Catholic

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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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  Answers, Come Up, Mankind

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

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  Heart, Men, Injustice

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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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  Mother, Teacher, College

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