I’ve never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next! Sylvester McCoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. Sylvester McCoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, ‘Yes.’ I’ve said yes to everything. Sylvester McCoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
