Sylvester McCoy Quotes

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

The running thread of my career has been different scripts.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

You never know the way your career takes.

At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.