Author: Richard McCabe

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I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

- Richard McCabe

There's a mythical status to the Tony Awards. When you're growing up as an actor, you hear about Broadway and the Tonys, but it's not something you ever expect to experience.

There's a mythical status to the Tony Awards. When you're growing up as an actor, you hear about Broadway and the Tonys, but it's not something you ever expect to experience.

- Richard McCabe

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 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.

- Richard McCabe

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

- Richard McCabe

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 done.

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 done.

- Richard McCabe

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.

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

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 the arc of the story, of their relationship right.

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 the arc of the story, of their relationship right.

- Richard McCabe

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

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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