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 More Quotes by David Tennant More Quotes From David Tennant 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 geek enthusiasm thinking 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 matter people years 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 good-person nice want 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 doctors growing-up people I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school. David Tennant awkward kids school 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 atmosphere degrees dream 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 character moving thinking 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 voice strong people 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 doctors winning thinking 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 way moving thinking 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 bakers doctors actors 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 like-you watches looks 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 self character thinking 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 acting mean negative 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 balance real stories 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 hard objectives children 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 challenges jobs thinking 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 gothic dust way 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. David Tennant differences reality thinking 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 smart clever running
