David Tennant famous quotes

04-17-2025

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.
-- David Tennant

#Thinking #Geek #Obsession
To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.
-- David Tennant

#Strong #Voice #People
Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
-- David Tennant

#Years #People #Matter
It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.
-- David Tennant

#Character #Interesting #Guy
There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins... I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.
-- David Tennant

#Nice #Thinking #Want
How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.
-- David Tennant

#Watches #Looks #Like You
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
-- David Tennant

#Running #Clever #Smart
When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
-- David Tennant

#Real #Balance #Scripts
Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!
-- David Tennant

#Committees
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.
-- David Tennant

#Winning #Thinking #Years
Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.
-- David Tennant

#Dream #Atmosphere #Able
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do. And I remember understanding very clearly the difference between the fantasy and reality of that, and that making it even more exciting.
-- David Tennant

#Reality #Thinking #Differences
I'm quite happy to leave it still feeling that way, leave it before it starts feeling like a job. ... I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.
-- David Tennant

#Jobs #Memories #Growing Up
Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats.
-- David Tennant

#Circles #Fire #Theatre
I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now. So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.
-- David Tennant

#Jobs #Thinking #Appreciate
I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.
-- David Tennant

#Doctors #Actors #Tiny
I've always been a geek and slightly awkwardâ€¦ slightly ummâ€¦ I was never the cool kid at school.
-- David Tennant

#School #Kids #Awkward

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