An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

I'm quite happy to leave it still feeling that way, leave it before it starts feeling like a job. ... I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.