Simon Callow Quotes

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.