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" The only person that I want to love me is my wife. "

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" My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that. "

" Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am. "

" A little showbiz never hurt anyone. "

" It's one thing getting the job of Doctor Who, which is wonderful. And then the next thing they say to you is, 'We're going to announce it live on television!' And you think, 'That's not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!' "

" I have a fairly normal domestic life. "

" What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage. "

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

" 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 love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people. "

" 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 destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more. "

" I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win. "

" For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth. "

" Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. "

" Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught. "

" When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door. "

" I think the nice thing about 'Doctor Who' is whether people like it or don't like it, somewhere, someone loves you and will always love you - and the more everyone hates you, the more they'll love you. "

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

" Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated. "

" 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. "

" I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. "

" The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do. "

" The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them. "