There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and….

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!.

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 v….

When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be….

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..

Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set ….

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..

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

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 o….

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you..

All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspir….

Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in g….

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that..

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that ser….

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..

It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets ….

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….

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..

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do..

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