Sylvester McCoy Quotes

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

• Career
• Variety
• Crossed

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

Sylvester McCoy

• Career
• Never
• Planned

I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

Sylvester McCoy

• Philosophy
• Say
• Yes

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

Sylvester McCoy

• Television
• Difference
• Literary

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

Sylvester McCoy

• Things
• Relax
• Contemplate

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Sylvester McCoy

• Time
• Pressure
• Filming

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Sylvester McCoy

• Film
• Story
• Theatre

Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.

Sylvester McCoy

• Work
• Actor
• Prepared

Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!

Sylvester McCoy

• Film
• Fly
• Strange

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

Sylvester McCoy

• Audience
• Emotion
• Stage