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His Quotes by Simon Callow
- 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…
- 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…
- He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
More His Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle