Simon Callow
Simon Callow
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBEis an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 June 1949
children struggle anxiety
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.
theatre way facts
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.
thinking secret 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.
jesus men stories
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?
real phones people
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.
responsibility blood hands
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.
long actors wanted
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
artist should-have aspect
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
facts attributes born
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.
growing-up sunday down-and
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
queens actors nine
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
opera direct
I'd like to direct more operas.
jesus personality catholic
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
mother teacher college
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.