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.

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.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.

The Cottage Diner’s homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.