Richard McCabe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Richard McCabe

#Mean #Thinking #Light
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
-- Richard McCabe

#Feelings #Eloquence
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

#Night #Careers #Two
A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
-- Richard McCabe

#Acting #Vices #Different
As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
-- Richard McCabe

#Actors #Kevin #Brilliant
Music has always been profoundly important to me.
-- Richard McCabe

#Important

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

Richard McCabe famous quotes

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