"I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence."
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"As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical."
"There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing."
"When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it."
"I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff."
"I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job."
"When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50."
"Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part."
"I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level."
"I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense."
"Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left."
"As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can."
"There’s rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they’re much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I’m like, I dunno why, they’d all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans."
"I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold."
"I am a terrible sleeper."
"Time travel is such a magic concept."
"The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal."
"There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve."
"I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing."
"I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'"