David Tennant Quotes

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

I really don't know who I am, so I don't know when to stop, so when I see a big threatening button that should never ever be touched, I just want to do this!

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.