Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

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

I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.