51 Quotes by Simon Callow

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.

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

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.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

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.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

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.

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.