47 Quotes from David Tennant ❤️
1. “Are you referring to my oeuvre as random?”
2. “You put them on your feet and at first they squeak and hurt and you can’t really walk. But you LIKE these shoes, so you work away at it until the shoes feel comfortable”
3. “Every now and again, I do acquire stuff and it starts to take over my house, and every now and again, I have a very severe bout of life laundry and get rid of lots of stuff, and then I regret things I’ve thrown away.”
4. “Tell you what, I’ll use sentences”
5. “I don’t really have regrets.”
6. “We go to sleep this night in hopes of cloudless skies”
7. “It doesn’t do you any good to say ‘well, actually…’”
8. “I’m very greedy, I want to be in ALL the T.V. shows.”
9. “Yeah. Cheeky snickers at three in the morning? Yeah.”
10. “I’ve said before, I have a very clear delineation between fantasy and reality”
11. [To some physicists telling him it’s time to leave] “You lied! You said time didn’t exist! It does! It’s a big ball of wibbly-wobbly time-y wime-y stuff!”
12. “I’ve never been the King of England.”
13. “We didn’t really have theatre [at Paisley Grammar], so I don’t know what I thought I was doing.”
14. “The books I read as a kid were all Doctor Who books. There were hundreds of episodes and they were all novelized. That was all I wanted to read.”
15. “Other cheap exploding sweets are available.”
16. “It is hard, when you’ve poured sweat and blood and tears and love into something for it not to be well received”
17. “It’s this peculiarly British thing. If it works, if it makes money, if it’s good for everyone involved, abandon it immediately.”
18. “It makes everyone realise that we’ve all got a bit of programming we need to unpick, in terms of how we think about things. The industry as a whole needs to do a bit of that. That might mean a bit of positive discrimination for a while to balance the scales a bit.”
19. “Dictatorships are notoriously suspicious of entertainers, especially those who comment on current affairs”
20. “We are fascinated by the idea of aliens, aren’t we? The idea that there is something out there that we don’t understand and also that there might be another world like ours but different. It’s tantalizing. It’s a little bit scary too, but I think the sense that we don’t want to be alone, you know, we want to feel like there is untold mysteries out there to discover.”
21. “A memory and an alarm clock. Is there anything else? You only need two things.”
22. “I think we all have our own personal Hell that we’re running from.”
23. (On dealing with his own mental health) “I suppose you have to learn to be gentle with that aspect of yourself.”
24. “Oh, everything. Lots of things. It’s only ever my own head – I have a propensity to worry about stuff. If it worms its way in there, it can wake me up at all hours. It’s usually something that I really shouldn’t be worrying about. The important things, I tend to sleep through. I’m sure a therapist could tell me why. When there’s something big, something little will wake me up screaming in the night.”
25. “It gets so philosophical sometimes. You start to think back to the Big Bang and the moment of singularity. That is such a concept that is beyond our ken. That moment of singularity… When was it? How can it exist?”
26. “We can all have mottos that we live by; it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re entirely faithful to them. It can be who you aspire to be. It doesn’t mean you can’t be inconsistent sometimes. That’s what makes any character and any person interesting – their inconsistencies, the little flaws in the weft of their character.”
27. “It’s an old, faithful jumper. It makes me very happy.”
28. “You want to be loyal to the memory of what it was and what it meant to so many people. You want the dots to join up. You want it to be emotionally true.”
29. “I run like Phoebe from Friends.”
30. “If I have remained grounded, it’s because I’m far too afraid to be anything else.”
31. “Los Angeles is an extraordinary place. It’s so full of opportunity that it does have that sort of wide-eyed American sensibility that anything is possible twinned with this very harsh business sense where nothing is possible. It’s a fascinating place and I found myself liking it more and more and loathing it more and more in equal measure. It’s a beautiful place and the opportunities are vast but at the same time it has a real cold-bloodedness.”
32. “Just keep going. Keep going and keep surprising yourself, keep having reasons to get up in the morning and keep feeling like you’re getting better and swifter and keener and sharper”
33. “It’s Monday. I’d go back to bed.”
34. “Everyone else seemed to have sorted out where they stood in the world, and I just couldn’t seem to. I felt like I was busking. I felt like I was running to catch up with everyone else. But I still feel like that, if I’m honest. It was the dawning of that sensation that’s never really gone away.”
35. “I’m keenly aware, all the time, of in some way failing”
36. “Talk. Talk to people. Talk to yourself if that helps. Might not get very good advice back… hmm.”
37. “AM I AFRAID OF DEATH?”
38. “There is so much more influencing our actions than what is morally right.”
39. “If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. I think it’s part of trying to find what makes a character.”
40. “I don’t mind spiders. I’m surprisingly okay with spiders.”
41. (On meeting Georgia) “The the likelihood of it is so remote. Especially because I grew up in Paisley and our worlds were so far apart. And yet here we are.”
42. “You never know from any year to the next how things are going to pan out, and I think you just have to treat it all as a bit of an adventure so that you’re neither crushed nor overwhelmed by what may occur.”
43. “I think there just comes a point, though, where a line has to be drawn. And we have to go, ‘This sort of stuff has just been going on for too long.’”
44. “I never felt like I was headed anywhere; I’ve always sort of bumbled, to be honest; I’ve always just gone from one contract to other; I’ve been mostly fortunate that I’ve been able to join them up. And that’s all I ever really hoped for.”
45. “Apparently it broke down because we didn’t drive it enough. At least that’s what the AA man said. We just use it for short trips and you can’t do that with a Prius apparently, you have to give it regular long runs.”
46. “Oh. I don’t know what I’m saying half the time.”
47. “I just want to float like a will-o-the wisp”
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