David Tennant Quotes

It’s very hard to be objective about something you’re in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.

I’ve always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

I still am a geek, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety’s the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It’s something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There’s something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it’s quite hard to really break that down entirely.

All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be … one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.

When you’re playing a real person there’s a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.