We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I don't want to know, when I'm playing a moment in the current episode, what's going to happen because it might change how I'm playing that.

What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.

Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.