51 Quotes by Simon Callow

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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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    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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