I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the surface, and the speech is over before you know it. You can just ride along on the music… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
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… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night.… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons. — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily,… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
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… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying to get… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, 'You really are the Queen.' You see people bowing to her at the stage… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
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… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
