Matt Smith

I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.

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.

I'd like to do a play in New York.

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.'

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

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

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

I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've got a lot to achieve workwise - I'd love to direct - but family would be good.

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.

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

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

I've always loved dinosaurs.

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

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

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Time travel is such a magic concept.

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.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

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