Blood Quote by Simon Callow

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

— Simon Callow

I don't have any big regrets.

— Simon Callow

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

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

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

— Simon Callow

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

— Simon Callow

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

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

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

— Simon Callow

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

— Simon Callow

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

— Simon Callow

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