Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

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.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.