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" Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. "
Simon Callow
Escape
Fact
Me
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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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" 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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" 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 would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that. "
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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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" Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. "
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" 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. "
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" There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you. "
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Fact
I Am
" 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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Thinking
Think
" Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' "
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King
About
" 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 the new Doctor, and I topped it. "
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Ask
Newspaper
New
" He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. "
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Always
Said
Cartoons
" Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening. "
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Very
Stage
Saturday
" To live another person's life is quite a weird thing. "
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Thing
Life
Person
" I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. "
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London
Down
Growing
" 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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Like
Jesus
Impression
" 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. "
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Human
Up
Situation
" 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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Obligation
Feel
Caught
" 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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Struggle
You
Living
" I'd like to direct more operas. "
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Direct
Operas
More
" The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state. "
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Blood
Someone
Responsibility
" Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged. "
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I Am
Actor
Me
" 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. "
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Mother
" I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor. "
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University
Queen
" When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. "
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Feel
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" I don't have any big regrets. "
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Big
Any
Regrets
" 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. "
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Change
Love
Performance
" I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. "
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Wanted
Writer
Actor
" Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story? "
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Jesus
Absolutely
Him
" Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. "
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Some
Themselves
Artists