A Life in Acting with Emmy Award-winning Actor, Director, Writer CADY McCLAIN

<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">“I won my first Emmy when I was 21, which was the result of absolutely devoting myself day and night for two years to doing all the scene work. I attended classes simultaneously and did plays until my mother died. I studied with Michael Howard for eight years. Even when I was so tired I couldn't get up to do a scene, he would say, "Get up and do a poem." It helped me enormously; it saved me.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The way I was trained and how I train others is that you know when you’re in the zone. Oh God, it feels so good. It feels like flying. And that's what you want. You want to be so unselfaware that you're on liftoff?</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I had to become the father of my family very young because my parents divorced when I was 12. My situation was a little bit unusual in that my father kind of disappeared, and...