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. Simon Callow audiencechangecontact share on social
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 humanlifeshakespeare Change image and share on social
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. Simon Callow characterfindgreat Change image and share on social
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' Simon Callow dementiakinglear Change image and share on social
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. Simon Callow answerdeeplyexplain Change image and share on social
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. Simon Callow borefeelgregarious Change image and share on social
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 academiccollegegown Change image and share on social
Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening. Simon Callow afternoonevenperform Change image and share on social
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 actcorefelt Change image and share on social
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. Simon Callow dickenhearthuman Change image and share on social
