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In England, I'm known for playing villains.
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Villains
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Music has always been profoundly important to me.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Music Me Important
Profoundly
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Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Observing
Skill
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As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Actors
Brilliant
Kevin
Young Actor
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I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Lessons
Piano Lessons
Rebelled
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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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Bits
Bits And Pieces
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What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.
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Odd
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If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
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Eloquence
Feelings
Felt
Eloquently
Shakespeare
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I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Joining
Royal
Big Break
Horizons
Opened
Shakespeare
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A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Acting
Different
Reactions
Vice Versa
Vices
Feeds
Inform
Live Audience
Versa
Vice
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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.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Best Work
Funny Best Work
Tends
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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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Depressing
Plot
Six
Taken
Whole
Part
Scenes
Hill
Over
Line
Rather
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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!
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Look People Sometimes
Bowing
Queen
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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.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Department
Social Security
Assistant
Clerical
Drama School
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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.
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Dramatic
Royal
Attempt
Worker
Drama School
Luckily
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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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Luxury
Arc
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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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Opera
Peter
Schoolmaster
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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 / Actor
Awards
Broadway
Mythical
Status
Tony
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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.
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Majority
Recognition
Better Actor
Vast
Vast Majority
Whereas
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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.
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Light
Mean
Strange
Thinking
Performance
Normally
Suddenly
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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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Bothered
Profession
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Broadway has a lot more razzle-dazzle than the West End. In terms of the everyday work routine, it's not different, but there's a cachet about Broadway that lends itself to more anticipation among audiences.
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Anticipation
Broadway
Everyday
Routine
Lends
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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 / Actor
Speech
Surface
Across
Adored
Ride
Verse
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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 on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life.
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Personal Life
Strain
Life Nature Work
Notice
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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 chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around.
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Motor
Pasta
Wander
Chicken
Quick
Switch
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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.
Richard Mccabe / Actor
Careers
Critics
Evening
Night
Two
Attend
Nights
Devise
Peak
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