Zitat des Tages von Richard McCabe:
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.
What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.
I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.
As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
Music has always been profoundly important to me.
A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
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.
