Top 33 Matt Smith Quotes

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in ‘Doctor Who.’

I constantly watch ‘The Simpsons’ and an English cartoon called ‘The Raccoons’ and ‘Gummi Bears.’ I was obsessed with ninja films, and the ‘Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,’ I used to love that as well.

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.

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

I’m not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

It seems like there’s a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

Spiders – the way they move freaks me out. It’s so malevolent.

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we’d all be a little happier.

It’s hard work, ‘Doctor Who,’ but let’s be frank about it, I’m fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am. I don’t just mean financially, I mean the nature of the part and everything that comes with it.

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.

Time travel is such a magic concept.

Overnight ratings are dead. It’s just not the way TV is sold any more.

Kids should feel afraid of ‘Doctor Who.’ All the adults I’ve talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That’s part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you’re afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.

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.’

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It’s one of those tragedies that I’ve forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

I just love vampires.

I thought ‘Skyfall’ was a sumptuous film.

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 am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

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 got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

No, I’m not religious. At all. I’m an atheist.

I am a fan of a bright sock. They’re bold.

I’ve always loved dinosaurs.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries – but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it’s Church’s and Russell & Bromley.

I’d like to do a play in New York.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It’s my thing.

I’m not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

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.