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

- Simon Callow

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

- Simon Callow

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

- Simon Callow

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

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

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

- Simon Callow

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 lo…

- Simon Callow

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 t…

- Simon Callow

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

- Simon Callow