Simon Callow
Simon Callow
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBEis an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 June 1949
acting actors needs
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
artist should-have aspect
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
childhood facts influence
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
gone human-life humans
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
facts attributes born
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 affect you.
trying might able
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.
long actors wanted
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
answers come-up mankind
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.
growing-up sunday down-and
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
queens actors nine
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
opera direct
I'd like to direct more operas.
children struggle anxiety
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.
jesus men stories
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?
lonely bored wonderful
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.