Top 40 Sylvester Mccoy Quotes
#1. 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
#2. They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.
Sylvester McCoy
#3. I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
Sylvester McCoy
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
Bodhidharma
#7. Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.
Danny Brown
#8. 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
#9. There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. 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
#11. I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.
Sylvester McCoy
#12. As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.
Sylvester McCoy
#13. We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.
Oskar Lafontaine
#14. If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.
Lee Smolin
#16. There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
Sylvester McCoy
#17. 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
#19. I love playing 'Radagast.' He's my new love, you know what I mean? I'm not divorcing 'Doctor Who.' I'm just going to be married to a few people.
Sylvester McCoy
#20. In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.
Sylvester McCoy
#21. '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
#22. Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
Sylvester McCoy
#23. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!
Dalai Lama
#24. I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently.
Sylvester McCoy
#25. From birth rocks have a desire to go nowhere, from birth leafs have a desire to be somewhere with the wind. Both get their desires.
Evans Biya
#26. Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.
Audrey Hepburn
#27. Now I'm old ... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon ... and it's great!
Sylvester McCoy
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Seneca The Younger
#31. Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
Sylvester McCoy
#32. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.
George S. McGovern
#33. I remember asking everyone else in my life for forgiveness, but I realize I never asked myself.
A.S. King
#34. Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.
Diana Vreeland
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Did you talk to him about it?"
"Oh, sure. Nothing happened, yadda yadda. The usual. But my maydar went off like crazy."
"Maydar?"
"As in, he may be thinking about super hot sex with her. Like radar, only not as sure.
Rachel Caine
#39. I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
Sylvester McCoy
#40. He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not green.
He says everything is a matter of perception.
Sherman Alexie
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