Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Paul McGann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Paul McGann.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television film. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the series Hornblower.

English - Actor | Born: November 14, 1959

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As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

Paul McGann

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

Paul McGann

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

Paul McGann

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Paul McGann

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Paul McGann

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

Paul McGann

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Paul McGann

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

Paul McGann

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

Paul McGann

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Paul McGann

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

Paul McGann

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

Paul McGann

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

Paul McGann

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

Paul McGann

What I did, I did without choice.

Paul McGann

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Paul McGann

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