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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We celebrate God when we share in each other’s joy and pain

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

Oh yeah, "God is great!" Well, why an't you, mate?

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.