Simon Callow Quotes

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.