Richard McCabe Quotes

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.

For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

If you can sustain a career over 40 years in this business, you've gotta consider yourself lucky.

I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.

You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.

I am very proud of my career and that I've the health, thank God, to continue doing this for so long.