I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

Have you had a 'relationship discussion' with God lately? Do you need to?

And what's above all... above us... Who is God!?- Who are the aliens... who are the people which ignore us!?

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now