Simon Callow Quotes

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.

Simon Callow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 13, 1949

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I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

Jim Parsons

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I always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.

Jenny Slate

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

Michael Dirda

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L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Simon Baker

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As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

Jason Moran

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Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

Debra Wilson

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

Chris Martin

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Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better.

Chuck Liddell

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When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

Ashley Jensen

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I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

Paula Abdul

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