Sylvester McCoy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Lakes #Decision #Boulders
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
-- Sylvester McCoy

#Relax #Down And #Should
If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.
-- Sylvester McCoy

#Jobs #Said #Ask Me
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

#Play #Theatre #Hull
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

#Boys #Giving #Theatre
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

#America #Theatre #Toilets
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

#Movement #Lines #Looks
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

#Jobs #Theatre #Stories

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions
May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.
I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.
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.
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Sylvester McCoy famous quotes

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