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
astounding bleak piece poetry visionary
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
spent
He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
becoming characters great invented life pleasure telling
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.
people physique
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
feature life literary scripts sent victorian
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.
bit book definitive interested knew obviously
I knew him a little bit socially, and obviously his book is the definitive biography, and I knew that he was interested in writing for the theatre.
cheer children grieving
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
gone human-life humans
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
thinking people feelings
Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
kings needs dementia
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
life-is weird-things persons
To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
weekend afternoon evening
Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
answers come-up mankind
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.
lonely bored wonderful
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.