I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

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.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I am a one success man.

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

I think people can believe in anything.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

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.

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

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

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.

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

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.