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
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.
mother teacher college
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
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.