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Simon Callow quotes: 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.

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.

Simon Callow quotes: Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Simon Callow quotes: I'd like to direct more operas.

I'd like to direct more operas.

Simon Callow quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Simon Callow quotes: To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

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

Simon Callow quotes: He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

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

Simon Callow quotes: Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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

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

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

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

Simon Callow quotes: I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

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

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

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

Simon Callow quotes: I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

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

Simon Callow quotes: I don't have any big regrets.

I don't have any big regrets.

Simon Callow quotes: Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

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

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

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

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

Simon Callow quotes: 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.

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.

Simon Callow quotes: Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

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

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

Simon Callow quotes: 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 don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.