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

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.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

My favorite project is always the next one.

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.