I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
