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Simon Callow Quotes

English - Actor | June 13, 1949 -

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

Heart Man Human Social Human Heart

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

Life Live Weird Person Quite Thing

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Children Happy Parents Feel Up Make

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.

Children Struggle You Lose Living

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

People Think Thinking Feeling 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.

Myself I Am Think You Acting Say

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.

Mother Teacher Vision College Me

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

Great Acting Actor Need Conclusion

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Childhood Me Influence Escape Big

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

Growing Up Down Growing London Up

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

Evening Saturday Stage Weekends Very

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.

I Am Lonely Short Feel Sometimes

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