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I don't have any big regrets.
Simon Callow / Actor
Regrets
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I'd like to direct more operas.
Simon Callow / Actor
Direct
Opera
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To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
Simon Callow / Actor
Life Is
Persons
Weird Things
Weird Thing
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Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
Simon Callow / Actor
Artist
Should
Should Have
Aspects
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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
Simon Callow / Actor
Actors
Long
Wanted
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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
Simon Callow / Actor
Kings
Dementia
Needs
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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow / Actor
Dementia
Lear
Shakespeare
Wrote
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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
Simon Callow / Actor
Acting
Actors
Conclusion
Needs
Great Actor
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I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
Simon Callow / Actor
Queens
Actors
Belfast
Months
Nine
Nine Months
Ran
University
Actor
Away
Queen
Stayed
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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Callow / Actor
Bleak
Astounding
Piece
Visionary
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Simon Callow / Actor
Men
Dickens
Heart
Human Heart
Injustice
Injustices
Shakespeare
Speaks
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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
Simon Callow / Actor
Down And
Growing Up
Hated
London
Sunday
Stopped
Closed
Sundays
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He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
Simon Callow / Actor
Curious
Tricks
Hours And Hours
Practising
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Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow / Actor
Childhood
Facts
Influence
Big Influence
Escape
In Fact
Plotting
Spent
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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
Simon Callow / Actor
Afternoon
Evening
Performing
Saturday
Weekend
Weekends
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Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
Simon Callow / Actor
Acting
Core
Feelings
People
Thinking
Increasingly
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When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Simon Callow / Actor
Cheer
Children
Grieving
Obligation
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Caught
Glimpse
Might
Obligation
Trying
Tremendous
Fulfill
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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 / Actor
Gone
Human Life
Humans
Shakespeare
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Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
Simon Callow / Actor
Jesus
Catholic
Impression
Personality
Pious
Catholics
Stayed
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Imagination
Space
Theatre
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Religion
Answers
Come Up
Mankind
Practise
Situation
Interested
Deeply
Explain
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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 / Actor
Teacher
Academic
College
Mother
Oxford
Gown
Wearing
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Acting
Depends
Secret
Thinking
Myself I Am Sometimes
Critically
Secrets
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Born
Facts
Sanguine
I Am Me Born
Must I Am Me
Affect
Attribute
Essentially
Inclined
Section
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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?
Simon Callow / Actor
Jesus
Men
Centre
Civilisation
Fascination
Western
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He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
Simon Callow / Actor
Caricatures
Physique
Brilliantly
Voices
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The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Simon Callow / Actor
Blood
Elderly
Flesh
Responsibility
Cupboard
Shut
We Cannot
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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 / Actor
Scripts
Victorian
Literary
Feature
Sent
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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 / Actor
Decided
Doctor Who
Doctors
Film
Ran
Years
Years Ago
Bbc
Doctor
Feature
Feature Film
Newspaper
Poll
Readers
Topped
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He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
Simon Callow / Actor
Becoming
Life Story
Pleasure
Writer
Great Writer
Telling
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Bored
Gregarious
Lonely
Sometimes
I Am Sometimes Feel
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Anxiety
Children
Extraordinary
Ordinary
Struggle
Usual
Anxieties
Get Married
Precisely
Shakespeare
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Menace
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Outraged
People
Phones
Real
Texting
I Am Me People
I Am Me May
Answering
May Me I Am
Disturb
Emails
Few People
Spot
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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.
Simon Callow / Actor
Contact
Facts
Storytelling
Theatre
Way
Directly
Relating
Responds
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