51 Quotes by Simon Callow


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

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

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    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.

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    I knew him a little bit socially, and obviously his book is the definitive biography, and I knew that he was interested in writing for the theatre.

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