Author: Simon Callow

Quotes

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

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

- Simon Callow

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.

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.

- Simon Callow

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

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

- Simon Callow

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

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

- Simon Callow

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

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

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

- Simon Callow

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