I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

I was amazed to go Oscar and win it. It was fantastic getting up on the stage there and looking down. I thought, "That guy looks like Steve Martin, and that guy's like Arnold Schwarzenegger." But it was Steve Martin, and it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they have this terrible kind of conveyor belt backstage - literally - where they take you to this big hangar where the world's press are gathered, and they make you stand on a stage, and they introduce you.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.