I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.
From Peter Capaldi
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.
Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.
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!
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
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