Sylvester McCoy Quotes

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

From the moment I saw 'Camelot' as a kid, the organic inclination of performing before a live audience is raw and visceral. Once you're out there, there's no yelling 'Cut!' or any such thing as a do-over because that moment has passed, and you're in it as it's happened and gone, sharing it with everyone.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.

Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.

I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.