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

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.

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.

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.

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

thoughts are cheap and they don't hurt anybody

I am most grateful to the Lord for the gift of life.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.