47 Quotes by Richard McCabe

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

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.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

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.

In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily, I got in at the first attempt.

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 of it.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.