You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Hope is my strength. My strength is my weapon. And my Love, nurtures them both.

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.