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" I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing. "

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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. "

" No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist. "

" Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more. "

" I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. "

" It's hard work, 'Doctor Who,' but let's be frank about it, I'm fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am. I don't just mean financially, I mean the nature of the part and everything that comes with it. "

" As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical. "

" Time travel is such a magic concept. "

" Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting. "

" 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. "

" I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer. "

" I'd like to do a play in New York. "

" Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part. "

" I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level. "

" There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. "

" Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. "

" 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. "

" I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold. "

" Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent. "

" 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. "

" If you want to give it a good go, you've got to make some sacrifices and be as dedicated as you can be. Particularly with 'Doctor Who.' It's two or three hours of line-learning a night. "

" I've always loved dinosaurs. "

" I am a terrible sleeper. "

" Every two weeks on 'Doctor Who,' the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in. So, it's constantly surprising, and it's a pressure that you relish, actually. "

" I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've got a lot to achieve workwise - I'd love to direct - but family would be good. "

" I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest. "

" I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool. "