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Simon Callow Quotes
Page 1 of 1Simon Callow
June 13, 1949 -
Nationality: English
Category: Actor
Subcategory: English Actor
|  He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. | | Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. | | He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. | | He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. | | When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. | | I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books. |
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