Top 30 Jodie Whittaker Quotes

I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates.

I’m the type of person that you’d walk past and go, ‘I think I went to school with her,’ or ‘I know her and I can’t quite place it.’ It certainly isn’t, ‘I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.’

I’ve never experienced sexual harassment at work, but I 100% believe and support everyone that has come forward, because I’m very lucky that it has never happened to me.

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you’re a citizen of your own existence.

I’m opinionated, and I’m comfortable with confrontation. I’m very happy to say if I believe the opposite of what you think.

When you’re a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it’s really unglamorous.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can’t control.

I’m not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you’re on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.

I am a quiet person’s nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I’m reading, because I’m a book geek.

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.

Of all the life skills I could have learned – First aid? Nah. But I can pour a pint.

I’ve never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I’m the one who gets into arguments because I don’t keep my mouth shut.

I’m not cerebral in any way. Education, for me, was a nightmare. You put someone talking in front of me, and I cannot engage with that. I think that’s why I’m an actor; if I can physically be in it, I get it.

I’m a quiet person’s nightmare – the only time I shut up is when I’m reading, because I’m a book geek.

I was the attention-seeking child in class who needed everyone to look at meee.

You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.

I exist on a caffeine level ten.

I don’t really want to talk about relationships because it lets people into stuff. I’m not on Facebook for that reason.

Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don’t always look the same is a huge honour for me.

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

As a young girl, I did not think that ‘Time Lord’ would ever be on my CV.

I’m not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

I avoid banks and I’ve never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I try to be like a sponge when I’m around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn’t have had any friends in any environment other than performing.

I 100% want to support the movement, #MeToo and Time’s Up. We are a sisterhood.

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.

I’ll never be able to quantify how important ‘Venus’ was for me or my career. I ticked a huge box.

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.