Dementia Quote by Simon Callow Download Open image “Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.” — Simon Callow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dementia King Lear Kings Lear Needs
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more. No fanfare,… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more. No fanfare,… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior something quite… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we… — Miles D. White Copy Share Image
You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect… — Tan Le Copy Share Image
When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain. — Bob DeMarco Copy Share Image
As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a 'vehicle' for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for… — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.” — C.J. Tudor Copy Share Image
A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could I combine… — Jordan Banks Copy Share Image
