Sylvester McCoy Professions : Actor Born : August 20, 1943 Browse All Authors Top 25 quotes by Sylvester McCoy 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! Sylvester McCoy great you freedom people '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. Sylvester McCoy doctor difference lord television I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one. Sylvester McCoy doctor going thought mistake Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird! Sylvester McCoy climb fly weird you There's still a part of me that believes what was great about 'Doctor Who' in the early days was that you had a superhero who didn't wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, who used his brain rather than his brawn. Sylvester McCoy doctor great me you Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors