Richard McCabe Quotes

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival that I felt like my career started.

All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

I got my degree in acting and theater, and then I had a teacher who told me to take a class with The Groundlings. And for a second, I thought, 'Well, I don't know about that. I'm a serious actress.' And then I did, and I loved it, and I said, 'Ah, well, I guess this is what I'm going to do now.'

The time and preparation before a play is something I really value, and it's something I learned in New York.

My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their stages. That was the theatre that nurtured me to expand as an artist.

I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.

I'm always in the market for my acting.

For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.

I am not at a level where I will be flooded with offers. Hopefully, things will change after 'Pink.' It is one film after 'Shaitan' where I am hoping things will change for me.