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Simon Callow

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 of them to the state.

— Simon Callow responsibility

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

— Simon Callow influence

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 children

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 disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

— Simon Callow people

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

— Simon Callow men

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

— Simon Callow poetry

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

— Simon Callow men

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

— Simon Callow age

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 art

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 and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

— Simon Callow time

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 and his story?

— Simon Callow art

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

— Simon Callow art

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 to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

— Simon Callow children

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow art

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

— Simon Callow life

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

— Simon Callow sin

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

— Simon Callow writer

I don't have any big regrets.

— Simon Callow regret

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 religion

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

— Simon Callow hate

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

— Simon Callow

I'd like to direct more operas.

— Simon Callow

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

— Simon Callow need

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

— Simon Callow people

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

— Simon Callow man

The elderly are all someones flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

— Simon Callow responsibility

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