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Top 30 Simon Callow Quotes (2025 Update)

Simon Callow Quote: “To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.”

1. “To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “To live another person’s life is quite a weird thing.”

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “I went to Queen’s University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.”

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “When children have grieving parents it’s also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.”

10. “When children have grieving parents it’s also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “Acting, Dickens and his contemporaries believed, was the art of gesture, no more and no less.”

11. “Acting, Dickens and his contemporaries believed, was the art of gesture, no more and no less.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.”

13. “When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.”

14. “Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.”

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “But this was just filling in the time pleasantly. He wants someone to worship, not to know.”

20. “But this was just filling in the time pleasantly. He wants someone to worship, not to know.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.”

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “I’d like to direct more operas.”

25. “I’d like to direct more operas.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “Childhood didn’t have a big influence on me, really – in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.”

26. “Childhood didn’t have a big influence on me, really – in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “He had done it as if in preparation for his work as a creative writer: he had mastered the technical aspect of writing, strengthening his verbal muscle, so that when he started to use his imagination, he knew exactly how to express himself.”

28. “He had done it as if in preparation for his work as a creative writer: he had mastered the technical aspect of writing, strengthening his verbal muscle, so that when he started to use his imagination, he knew exactly how to express himself.”

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Simon Callow Quote: “I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.”

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

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Simon Callow Quote: “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?”

30. “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?”

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