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Simon Callow

(1949) Actor United Kingdom

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Simon Callow is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Being an actor.

Quick Facts About Simon Callow

Born: June 15, 1949
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Being an actor

About Simon Callow

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow is an English actor. Known as a character actor on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including an Olivier Award and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to acting by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Theatre World Award honorary doctorate Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Quotes by Simon Callow

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

Life

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I don't have any big regrets.

Any

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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…

Blood

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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.

Cheer

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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.

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

Down and

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

Dickens

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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…

Anxiety

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Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

Art

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

Actors

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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Acting

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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.

Bigs

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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…

Answers

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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…

Attributes

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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…

Bored

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I'd like to direct more operas.

Direct

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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…

Gone

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

Bleak house

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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…

Acting

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

Afternoon

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

Actors

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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…

Decided

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Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show.…

Actors

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“Mostly, though, he made people laugh, with wicked impersonations of everyone around him: clients, lawyers, clerks, even the cleaning woman. When Pickwick…

Charles-dickens

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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…

Affected

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