Top 59 Callow Quotes
#1. I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.
Gillian Flynn
#2. Was there ever any doubt?
And as the spotlights fade away,
And you're escorted through the foyer,
You will resume your callow ways,
But I was meant for the stage.
Colin Meloy
#3. I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.
David Ogilvy
#4. I am not callow enough to suppose that books are not powerful
on the contrary, a book is the most delicious of paradoxes, an inert collection of symbols which are capable of changing the universe when once the cover is opened.
Lyndsay Faye
#5. I will serenade you from the street, Maggie Windham. I will be so callow, you will marry me to save me from embarrassment.
Grace Burrowes
#6. I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow.
Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding.
Louise Penny
#8. Like so many other kids gone wrong from my time, place, and class, I thought it glamorous to be self-destructive. Unfortunately, I had also always known that this was a stupid and callow way to think.
Emily Carter
#9. I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
Camille Paglia
#10. Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality.
Anurag Anand
#11. Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
Rob Lowe
#12. I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
Jo Brand
#13. No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.
Stephen Schwartz
#14. Such eagerness to create space between present self and past sins obliges adults in the room to wonder whether callow youth has really wised up. "What
Kai Ashante Wilson
#15. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?
Christopher Hitchens
#16. The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the charge, death was a whore who did not care who she drew into her darkness, veteran knight or callow bachelor.
Robyn Young
#17. Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.
Richard Corliss
#18. To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
Michael Bassey
#19. tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow Son and vouched for him,
Garrison Keillor
#20. When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
Jack Vance
#21. To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#22. It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Cass Gilbert
#23. There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.
Saul David
#24. a few words spoken beneath the moon, love
may be, but I write your name
in the celestial dust that lingers
in the air, above
the veilchenblau roses, callow
and pale
John Daniel Thieme
#25. I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
Simon Callow
#26. I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.
Simon Callow
#27. I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
Simon Callow
#28. Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
Simon Callow
#29. Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
Simon Callow
#30. I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow
#31. To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
Simon Callow
#32. autopsy results?" "Natural causes," Cooper said. "Mrs. Owen was very ill and had a heart attack." Riley nodded. "Consistent with our findings." Lamond
Pamela Callow
#33. My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Simon Callow
#34. To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
Simon Callow
#35. Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
Simon Callow
#36. I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.
Simon Callow
#37. The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Simon Callow
#38. I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
Simon Callow
#39. There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
Simon Callow
#40. Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Simon Callow
#41. Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
Simon Callow
#42. He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
Simon Callow
#43. I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
Simon Callow
#45. Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?
Simon Callow
#46. 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.
Simon Callow
#47. 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
#48. Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow
#49. 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.
Simon Callow
#50. Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow
#51. Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
Simon Callow
#52. You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
Simon Callow
#53. Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
Simon Callow
#54. He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
Simon Callow
#55. When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Simon Callow
#57. Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Callow
#58. Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.
Simon Callow
#59. 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.
Simon Callow
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