A biography for Matt Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.”
“I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.”
“I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.”
“Time travel is such a magic concept.”
“I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.”
“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.”
“As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.”
“No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.”
“Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.”
“Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them.”
“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 would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.”
“Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.”
“I've always loved dinosaurs.”
“Every two weeks on 'Doctor Who,' the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in. So, it's constantly surprising, and it's a pressure that you relish, actually.”
“It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.”
“I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.”