Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.

I think it's the people that you work with who change you the most.

Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

I am a restless person.

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

To be honest, I don’t think there’s any other show like ‘Doctor Who’ at all.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

If you don’t want to be foolish, don’t try to fool anyone.

Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.