32 Quotes by Sylvester McCoy

I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently.

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

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

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.

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.

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.

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.

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.'