Actors Quote by Simon Callow Download Open image “I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.” — Simon Callow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Long Theatre Wanted Writing
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct. — Charlie Weber Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into… — James Franco 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'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
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image