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.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

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

Never apologize for being nerdy.

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.