Simon Callow Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.”

“I'd like to direct more operas.”

“I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.”

“Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.”

“Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.”

“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.”

“To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”