I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I’m happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

After doing ‘Doctor Who,’ I’m open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven’t had before.

I’m always calling my doctor because I’m constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I’m a total hypochondriac.

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you’ll be a doctor at some place. There’s a career trajectory. Acting, there’s nothing. It’s constantly trying to procure jobs –… Read more »

You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.

I don’t go to the doctor except when I’m very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

I feel a lot. I get really bad stomachaches all the time. So I went to a doctor, and he said, ‘You’re a feeler.’ I take on people’s pain a… Read more »

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I do think it’s well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it… Read more »

I’m English, and ‘Doctor Who’ was this thing that I’ve been watching since I was three.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

He didn’t want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

When I went back and watched a couple of the older ‘Doctor Who’ episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I’d regret it if I didn’t act.