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" For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley. "
Matt Smith
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" I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God. "
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" Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them. "
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" I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way. "
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" There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. "
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" I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold. "
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" I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing. "
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" Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.' "
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" There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve. "
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" I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. "
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" If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies. "
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" Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. "
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" If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera. "
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" I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud. "
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" At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion. "
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" No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist. "
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" I am a terrible sleeper. "
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" Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without. "
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" As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. "
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" Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part. "
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" Time travel is such a magic concept. "
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" I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better. "
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" I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level. "
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" I was always aware of 'Doctor Who,' but I didn't grow up with it. "
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" I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well. "
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" Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect. "
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" I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old. "
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