I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a… — 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
