Watching ‘Doctor Who’ in the United States meant I was always behind the times – PBS didn’t get new episodes until two years after they ran, and I was aware of the show’s cancellation before the characters themselves knew, at least in my corner of the world.
Torchwood”s never going to be as heavy an effects show as ‘Doctor Who.’
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Even though I am a lifelong ‘Doctor Who’ fan, I’ve not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.
There was something very special about ‘Doctor Who’, and I did miss it a lot.
I’m so excited to be working on ‘Doctor Who,’ as it’s such a big and important part of British culture.
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back – only the fringes!
There’s the chiselled superhero that we’re used to seeing and we’ve all grown up with. But Doctor Who has never been that, which is wonderful. It’s attainable in so many ways.
Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope – I seem to recall they were always cropping up on ‘Doctor Who’ when I was young, though I may be misremembering.
‘Doctor Who’ has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
But there are still so many other roles that I would love to play, and hopefully I’m in a position after ‘Doctor Who’ to be a bit choosier about which ones I do. I want to play Wonder Woman.
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor’s office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
That’s one of the things I really respect and admire about ‘Doctor Who’, is that they’re always thinking out of the box with the characters they write and the actor they employ to portray them. They’re always challenging the stereotypes and peoples’ way of thinking.
My concept of a ‘Doctor Who’ girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
I think there was a petition online to get me involved in ‘Doctor Who.’ I’m not a ‘Doctor Who’ fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.
I very much enjoyed my time on ‘Doctor Who.’ The team were a delight to work with and everyone was very supportive and welcoming. All in all it was a blast.
I am a geek in terms of, I love ‘Close Encounters’ and I love ‘Star Wars,’ but other things… ‘Doctor Who,’ I don’t really care about at all, I couldn’t give a fig about it.
I happened to see a really old ‘Doctor Who’, the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he’d picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, ‘That’s rather fetching.’
A cameo in ‘Doctor Who’ would be kind of cool to have on my filmography.
I know in Britain with ‘Doctor Who’ all the classic actors, and the people who you’d really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that ‘Torchwood’ has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I’m just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.
No, I went through a process just like I would any other job in which my agent received the breakdown for ‘Doctor Who’ and I went for my audition. In the original audition, it said you can bring as much to the character, we’re looking for what the actor can bring.
I always say ‘Knocked Up’ opened the doors, and ‘Hangover’ just burst it wide open. To this day, it’s still surreal. And my wife’s a doctor. All our friends are doctors – our close friends. And it’s just that I have an odd job now. I think I’m like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
It’s always been my favourite show and I am on a mission to get on ‘Doctor Who.’
I’m a huge fan of ‘Buffy,’ ‘Angel’ and ‘Doctor Who.’ People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.
It may seem like hindsight now, but I just knew that ‘Doctor Who’ was going to be an enormous success. Don’t ask me how. Not everybody thought as I did. I was universally scoffed at for my initial faith in the series, but I believed in it.
Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
That’s what I love about ‘Doctor Who’ – it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.
Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
‘Doctor Who’ is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain’s role in the world as its empire unravelled.
Doctor Who’ is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.
Being in ‘Doctor Who’ has been so amazing. I don’t think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
I love playing ‘Radagast.’ He’s my new love, you know what I mean? I’m not divorcing ‘Doctor Who.’ I’m just going to be married to a few people.
When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with ‘Doctor Who’ scripts. I’d never even seen a script and couldn’t believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.
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.
I’m fully aware that ‘Doctor Who’ will always, always be part of my life, and that’s not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.
A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide factual information, and if necessary, goad the people into action – that too is not easy in the current political and business environment.
‘Doctor Who’ is pretty dark, I think. Generally it’s dark; it’s always been dark.
‘Doctor Who’ began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
I get auditions for best friend, best girlfriend, a doctor who appears in one scene and tells the protagonist that he has cancer, things like that.
It’s like a childish dream come true to be in ‘Doctor Who’ and to be an alien.
I started watching some ‘Doctor Who’ recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime – I’m pathetic.
‘Doctor Who’ is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I’d probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.
I’ll always be grateful for what ‘Doctor Who’ has given me. I go to quite a few fan conventions. It’s lovely to hang out with people you worked with so long ago. And, more than that, it’s made me aware of the impact that television can have.
My mom worked for a doctor who had a pool that he heated to 90 degrees, and I hated cold water. My dad showed me how to dive in that pool, and pretty soon I started doing flips.
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher’s diploma.
Once, I played a doctor who had a near-death experience, so I researched it, and it’s impressive what people are saying about what happened to those who’ve been through it: it changed their lives completely, made them different people after that. I find that immensely comforting.
Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.
I was always aware of ‘Doctor Who,’ but I didn’t grow up with it.
If you look at ‘Doctor Who,’ it’s a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It’s a silly concept, but it’s one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it’s sort of about what is humanity.
Back in the day, years ago, in 1988, the only TV I watched was ‘Doctor Who’ because I had children and two full-time jobs, and ‘Doctor Who’ was the exact length of time it took to do my nails, so I would watch ‘Doctor Who’ once a week!
