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" Actors love to act all those death scenes. "
Scenes
Act
Death
" As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it. "
You
Think
Tell
" I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight. "
Man
Overweight
Being
" I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it. "
Father
Think
End
" I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever. "
Eating
Food
Life
" I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it. "
Doing
Reading
Looking Forward
" If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. "
Turn
You
Work
" I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. "
Who
Me
Bottom
" I hope I'm always convincing when I act! "
Hope
Convincing
Always
" I like challenges that test your ingenuity. "
Like
Ingenuity
Challenges
" I loathe cheese, it makes me ill. "
Me
Makes
Loathe
" I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am. "
You
Me
People
" I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out. "
Work
Proud
Looking Back
" I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid. "
Paid
Long
Doing
" I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work. "
Good
Down
Work
" I take every job on its merits. "
Merits
Every
Job
" It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who. "
Anything
Because
Done
" I've mellowed quite quickly. "
Quite
Quickly
" I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business. "
Fact
Kind
You
" Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere. "
Jungle
Somewhere
Fail
" One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. "
Laugh
Say
Violence
" The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. "
Now
Writing
Some
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