When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

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

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.

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

I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.

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.