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Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.
I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.
Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.
Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.
I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.
My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous.
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.
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.
My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
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.
I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.
One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
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.
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.
Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.
The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.
If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
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.
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.
One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.
It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.
When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.
I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.
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.
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.