David Tennant Quotes

• 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, Enthusiasm, Geek

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• 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, Want, Good Person

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

  David Tennant

  Committees

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

  David Tennant

  Moving, Thinking, Way

  "A Crime Drama Crosses The Atlantic And Detective David Tennant Is On The Case". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

  David Tennant

  School, Kids, Awkward

  "David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' - interview". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

  David Tennant

  Children, Objectives, Hard

  "The Day of the Doctor: Info and Interviews (Interview with David Tennant - the Tenth Doctor)". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 7, 2013.

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• If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

  David Tennant

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  "David Tennant Talks GRACEPOINT, Working on His American Accent, Possibility of Future Seasons, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2014.

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• 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, Doctors

  www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Source: drwhointerviews.wordpress.com

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• Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

  David Tennant

  Dust, Way, Gothic

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• 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

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• 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

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.

  David Tennant

  Growing Up, Doctors, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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

  "David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' - interview". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• 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, Bakers, Actors

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• 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, Degrees

  Live Earth concert, 2007.

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• I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

  David Tennant

  Mean, Acting, Negative

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• 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

  Fire, Circles, Theatre

  "How Harry Potter Changed My Life: Part 3". www.radiotimes.com. July 21, 2011.

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• I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

  David Tennant

  Jobs, Thinking, Challenges

  "David Tennant Talks GRACEPOINT, Working on His American Accent, Possibility of Future Seasons, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2014.

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• An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

  David Tennant

  Thinking, Sound, Mouths

  "David Tennant Talks GRACEPOINT, Working on His American Accent, Possibility of Future Seasons, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2014.

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• 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, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

  David Tennant

  Character, Thinking, Self

  "A Crime Drama Crosses The Atlantic And Detective David Tennant Is On The Case". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 11, 2014.

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• We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

  David Tennant

  Space, Dialogue, Our Time

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