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
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.
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?
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.
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.
opera direct
I'd like to direct more operas.
queens actors nine
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
growing-up sunday down-and
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
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.
long actors wanted
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
trying might able
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.
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.
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.