Mcgann's Quotes

#1. I was the first companion to kiss the Doctor. I played Grace Holloway to Paul McGann's Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. We shared three kisses, in fact: very sweet and chaste. When I took the part, I'd never even heard of 'Doctor Who.' No one warned me that the kisses would be a big deal.

Daphne Ashbrook

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

Paul McGann

#3. The most truthful answers are found through observation. Words allow lies.

Heather Lyons

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

Paul McGann

#5. 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.

Paul McGann

#6. 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.

Paul McGann

#7. Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.

Henry Paulson

#8. Most people have some idea that they're leaving traces of themselves whenever they go online, but very few realize how much. Even fewer people know how much all these digital footprints can tell others about their lives.

Oisin McGann

#9. Some people are born to lift heavy weights,
some are born to juggle golden balls.

Max Beerbohm

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

Paul McGann

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

Paul McGann

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

Paul McGann

#13. 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.

Paul McGann

#14. 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.

Paul McGann

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

Paul McGann

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

Paul McGann

#17. I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.

George W. Bush

#18. It's my perspective: gloom and doom.

Harvey Pekar

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

Paul McGann

#20. 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.

Paul McGann

#21. 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

Louise Gluck

#22. You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

Amar'e Stoudemire

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

Paul McGann