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

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  Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would sa

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  I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on yo

• Simon Callow:

  My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an

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

• Simon Callow:

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

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

• Simon Callow:

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

• Simon Callow:

  I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite grega