Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.
I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.
I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.
The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.
I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.
I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.
I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.
I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
