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“I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.”

— Simon Callow

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

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