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A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.
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.
A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.
I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.
The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
I'm pretty good for an old geek.
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