Simon Callow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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?”

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

“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.”

“Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.”

“Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.”

“He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.”

“I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.”

“I don't have any big regrets.”

“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.”

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