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 – it’s very disconcerting.
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 little too much.
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 ain’t worth it.
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.