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Simon Callow Biography

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director.

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

Acting, Actors, Come, Conclusion, Needs

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

Actor, Actors, Months, Nine, Queens, University

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

Audience, Directly, Facts, Responds, Theatre, Way

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.

Ask, Doctor, Doctors, Feature, Film, Years

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.

Born, Essentially, Fact, Facts, Sanguine

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

Heart, Human, Injustice, Men, Shakespeare, Speaks

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

Gone, Human, Human Life, Humans, Shakespeare

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.

Acting, Having, Secret, Secrets, Thinking

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

Life, Life Is, Live, Persons, Quite, Weird Things

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

Artist, Aspects, Impenetrable, Probably, Should, Should Have

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.

Answers, Come, Come Up, Deeply, Mankind, Practise

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.

Answering, People, Phones, Real, Show

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?

Fascination, Jesus, Men, Particular, Story, Western

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.

Arena, Imagination, Performance, Space, Theatre

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.

Academic, College, Mother, Teacher

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

Afternoon, Evening, Saturday, Weekend, Weekends

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.

Glimpse, Having, Might, Tremendous, Trying

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

Acting, Core, Feelings, People, Thinking

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

Catholic, Impression, Jesus, Personality

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

Down And, Growing, Growing Up, Stopped, Sunday, Sundays