Richard McCabe Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Richard McCabe:
It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.
~Richard McCabe
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I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.
~Richard McCabe
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In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
~Richard McCabe
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Music has always been profoundly important to me.
~Richard McCabe
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If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
~Richard McCabe
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Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.
~Richard McCabe
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A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
~Richard McCabe
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What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.
~Richard McCabe
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It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around.
~Richard McCabe
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As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
~Richard McCabe
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It is the nature of the business that you work unsociable, unpredictable hours and can get called away at a moment's notice to somewhere on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life.
~Richard McCabe
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