It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

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.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

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.

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

The waves of time wash us all clean.