We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

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.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.