Sylvester McCoy Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: August 20, 1943

Topics

TimeBestYouChoiceActingFirst

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

Mavis Staples

PositivePurposeYouLiftSpirit

For me, it's important to have a team and coach and manager that I know, and they know me, so they are not coming to me with everything.

Angelique Kerber

MeTeamKnowImportantManager

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol

SeeingRunBeliefWithoutRepeat

I'm really a shy person.

Si Robertson

PersonShyReallyShy Person

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Rob Lowe

DoingBackEarlyGoCrisisWild

You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.

Ron Johnson

SuccessTeamYouSayDefeatedSure

It takes a lot of guts to come out to your friends and family. For most gay people, coming out is the most traumatic experience in their life because of the worry about the backlash: 'What's going to happen? Are my parents going to accept me? Are my friends going to accept me? Are my sisters and brothers going to accept me?'

Martina Navratilova

LifeFamilyExperienceParentsMe

You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.

Art Malik

PastDiversityWorldSocietyYou

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Aristotle

GoodTruthMenManTruth IsTrue

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

William Scranton

LimitsTelevisionMeanGroundGoing

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Willie Aames

GoodStubbornYouBadBeingJust

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

Shelley Berman

BelieveKnowImportantI BelieveWho

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