Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.

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

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

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