Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoyis a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 – the final Doctor of the original run – and briefly returning in a television film in 1996 and for his role as the wizard Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 August 1943
literary lord
'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.
lakes decision 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.
relax down-and should
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
play theatre hull
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.
boys giving theatre
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.
movement lines looks
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.
eccentric freedom great maybe people wonderful
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!
work
Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
yes
I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.
few love married playing
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.
convention
I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.
death love whom
I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently.
love
The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!
life lord rite
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.