Simon Callow Quotes

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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• 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • High
  • Plateau

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Character
  • Night
  • Day

• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Women
  • Help
  • Man

• What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Effective

• I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Day

• Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Career
  • Walk
  • Park

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Different
  • Change
  • Fashion

• That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Trump
  • Idiot

• Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Real
  • Book
  • History

• My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Environment
  • Escape
  • Don't Think

• The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won't hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • I Feel
  • Disrespect
  • Hesitate

• Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Memories

• What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Emotion

• 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
  • Audience
  • Facts
  • Performances