Simon Callow Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure…
• I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about…
• Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
• He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
• He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

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