The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesnt worry me personally all that much.

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.

In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.