"So, he’s a swaggering bully—who also withholds vital information from the people about whom he supposedly cares the most. During the first season, when Rory dies and gets swallowed up by the Crack in the Universe, thus ceasing ever to have existed, the Doctor remembers Rory, but Amy, Rory’s fiancé, doesn’t. Does the Doctor say, “Amy, listen to me, I know you don’t remember, but you had this fiancé, and you’d actually decided to go through with the wedding after that time you sexually assaulted me, but he got drawn into the Crack in your wall—and I know that it’s got something to do with me. Look, here’s a piece of the TARDIS I pulled out of the Crack! With your help, we’re going to fix this, I promise. And we definitely will not start off two of the next three episodes by going to museums. Come along, Pond!” No, he doesn’t, and they do start off two of the next three episodes by going to museums."

"Q: What are the qualities you share with the Doctor, and how are you completely different?"

"Q: Matt, your version of the Doctor is very quixotic, which has gone over well. Is that something you brought to the role, or is that something that was on the page?"

"Q: Matt, what’s been the most fun about playing this role?"

"Excellent bottom!"

"I've kind of made Jack a hero that I would like to have looked up to as a little boy because as a little boy, I knew I was gay but I didn't know what it was. Didn't know who to talk to about it. … I wanted kids to like him, and I wanted women, men, I wanted everyone to like him. But first I wanted people to hate him. I wanted them to think he was arrogant and pushy and too sure of himself. And I wanted them to follow the arc of the change he went through in the final episodes of Doctor Who."

"In terms of Jack's sexuality it was a really bold thing that Russell [T Davies] did putting him right in the middle of a show at seven o'clock. For young people to see a character who is such a positive role model, who is honest and decent and good and a hero, and for him to have a sort of non-defined sexuality I think it's a really important thing to see. Your sexuality doesn’t make you a good or bad person. And John was really keen on that too, he was really excited about the opportunity to do that I think."

"Captain Jack Harkness. I thought it was very refreshing to see such a lead character. He’s omnisexual and explores men, women, cupboards… You name it, he explored it."

"I could go on all Jack's stag parties in one night!"

"He likes to call himself Captain Jack, but I'm not buying it."

"I swear to you: If your duty is to protect the state above and beyond any other authority, then the one person you need right now is Jack Harkness."

"It's not... Men, it's...it's just him. It's only him."

"The problem seems to be an American with no sense of timing or fashion."

"Reset [2.6] (13 February 2008)"

"You always remember what you kill - Don't you, Jack?"

"...He is dashing, you have to give him that."

"Sleeper [2.2] (23 January 2008)"

"And the good thing is, he's not dead for long. I GET TO KILL HIM AGAIN!"

"Day One [1.2] (22 October 2006)"

"The Doctor Dances [1.10] (28 May 2005)"

"You have no idea what it felt like, coming back to life and knowing the world was empty...because you'd gone!"

"You've heard of immaculate conception, haven't you? Well..."

"If you've got forever, you don't notice the flecks in the concrete, or bother to touch the bricks... You send your friends into danger, knowing the stakes aren't the same for you, that you might get them killed - while you walk away unscathed."

"You need to figure out who's side you're on here, because if you don't know, you're not gonna make it out of this alive."

"You people and your quaint little categories."

"And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of "Torchwood"?"

"There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again."

"Sorry, old man! I gotta go meet a girl...But you've got an excellent bottom, too!"

"We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends."

"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared."

"Gone with the Wind, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, they all should have had the hero cut down by a Dalek, and they would've been vastly improved really."

"There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap."

"Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!"

"Anjli Mohindra - Rani Chandra"

"Daniel Anthony - Clyde Langer"

"Sinead Michael - Sky Smith"

"Yasmin Paige - Maria Jackson"

"Tommy Knight - Luke Smith"

"Elisabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith"

"John Leeson (voice) - K-9"

"Alexander Armstrong (voice) - Mr Smith"

"I would quite like to try my hand at directing although I would do it in the theatre rather than in TV or film. Theatre is more just about telling the story. I understand the way the theatre works. I will leave the TV to the experts. Doctor Who is very complicated to direct. It would be impossible to direct that and act in it as well."

"The Doctor does have some long speeches and he talks very quickly. Learning all his babble can take a while, but it's very well written babble so I don't mind and you do get quicker. When I filmed Recovery during the break in Doctor Who I would sit down at the weekend and learn the script in an hour and I was like 'Hang on??' You do get used to it though."

"I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think "Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now". So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last."

"This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders."

"If I'm honest I'm a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it as long as they're not hurting anyone else should merit any kind of special award or special mention because it's common sense, isn't it? It is human decency. We shouldn't live in a world where that is worth remarking on. However, until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist any more – I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up – whilst we do live in this world, I am honoured to receive this."

"[About Donald Trump] When he was over here, he was saying that he was going up to Scotland, my golf course in Scotland, cause people in London are protesting but up in Scotland they really like me. Can I say on behalf of the Scottish nation? We fucking don’t."

"I am so glad, I didn't get stuck in traffic!"

"Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats."

"I was once asked for my autograph in the shower on one of my rare visits to the gym. I was washing my hair, facing the wall, when I was tapped on the shoulder so already it's quite inappropriate. I turned round and there was another naked man standing there with a piece of paper. And I think 'if you can't see how inappropriate this I am just going to have to play along' so I took the paper, which is slowly becoming mulch, and carved my name in it."