I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.