Simon Callow Quotes

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

My life is mine to remember.

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.