I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

I take every job on its merits.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

I've mellowed quite quickly.

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

I think what we do is fairly unique on 'Psych,' and we just have to keep doing that because that's what got us where we are.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

When civility is illusory war is inevitable.

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.

Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.

'Balthazar' is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy - with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?