Paul McGann Quotes

#1. As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

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#2. I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

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#3. I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

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#4. What I did, I did without choice ...

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#5. If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

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#6. I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

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#7. I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

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#8. I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

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#9. Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

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#10. Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

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#11. I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

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#12. The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

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#13. Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

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#14. Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

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