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
doctors years film
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.
space imagination theatre
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
bit book definitive interested knew obviously
I knew him a little bit socially, and obviously his book is the definitive biography, and I knew that he was interested in writing for the theatre.
people physique
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
thinking people feelings
Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
thinking secret acting
I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.