Scottish - Actor | 1960 -
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.
Richard McCabe
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I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.
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Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.
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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 of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!
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In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
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For me, this profession is about having a career where you can go on working for 60 years, so I'm not particularly bothered by things to do with fame; I like to think that I just do what I do.
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Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, 'You really are the Queen.' You see people bowing to her at the stage door!
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In England, I'm known for playing villains.
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