He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
From 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 to the state.
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
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.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
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.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
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.
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