Latest David Tennant Quotes from Interviews

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

  David Tennant

  People, Different, Might

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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