I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.