 Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun. |
| I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly! |
| I like the stories with the historical themes. |
| I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about. |
| I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting. |
| After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone. |
| There are generations who watch Doctor Who together. |
| I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun. |
| I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home. |
| There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand other people's jobs, rather than just my own. |
| I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much. |
| Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team. |
| I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition. |
| I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it. |
| When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines. |
| In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people. |
| I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense. |
| Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma. |
| Some of those cartoons look nothing like me. |
| What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show. |
