Simon Callow

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?

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.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.