11 Sylvester McCoy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sylvester McCoy

Scottish Actor

Born: Aug 20, 1943

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I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. Sylvester McCoy

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As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story. Sylvester McCoy

I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about. Sylvester McCoy

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Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed. Sylvester McCoy

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling! Sylvester McCoy

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I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly. Sylvester McCoy

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I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next! Sylvester McCoy

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I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.' Sylvester McCoy

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I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently. Sylvester McCoy

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There's still a part of me that believes what was great about 'Doctor Who' in the early days was that you had a superhero who didn't wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, who used his brain rather than his brawn. Sylvester McCoy

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