Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director. Read full biography of Simon Callow →
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... →
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
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... →
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
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.
Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're... →
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... →
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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... →
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director.