If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
– Richard McCabe
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
One of the real problems as an actor is dealing with how you feel on any given night.
– Richard McCabe
Romeo and Juliet, with Leonardo Dicaprio, was fantastic for the simple reason it got so many young people watching Shakespeare. I get incredibly excited by anything which gets Shakespeare a wider audience.