Matt Smith Quotes
-
I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.
-
No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.
-
Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.
-
In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important.
-
I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.
-
I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.
-
If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.
-
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.
-
I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.
-
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.
-
Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
-
I'd like to do a play in New York.
-
I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.
-
Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
-
I just love vampires.
-
I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
-
I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.
-
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.
-
We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
-
Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.
-
I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'
-
Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'
-
I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.
-
As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.