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Here is a list of quotes that David has said or someone has said about him. If you find any quotes that you think are funny or should be here let me know.

Said by David Tennant

'You go into a supermarket and your face is on a cake. And the other day ... I got sent ... there are now underpants with my face on them. And that's not a sentence I ever thought I'd ever say on National Television ... you can now have ... my face on your crotch!' - (Parkinson, May 2007)

'I just hope people like it. I hope they stick with it and give it a chance. I know everyone loved Chris, and so did I, but hopefully I won't disappoint people.' - (On playing the Doctor)

'I was sent good luck cards from Tom Baker and Peter Davison. They were the Doctors I grew up watching, while eating toast and drinking Tizer at home, so I was very honoured.' - (After receiving the role of the Doctor)

'It was funny, when I first got asked I just laughed! I found it hilarious and impossible! And I remember Russell, very perceptively, saying "Don't say anything now, because I know the experience is quite a weird one.' - (Russell T Davies offering the role of the Doctor to David)

'Drama school is a pretty intense experience and I think it changes who you are. I think I grew up at drama school (which was fairly useful personally as much as professionally) and I certainly got exposed to a huge range of ideas, techniques and practices that I had no previous experience of. I wouldn't have known what I was doing as an actor if I hadn't gone.' - (On going to drama school)

'I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.' (On becoming an actor)

'Red Rum once did this with his hoof. I'm delighted to be following in the hoof-steps of Red Rum. It's a little bit overwhelming to be honest.' - (On turning on the Blackpool Illuminations, 31st August 2007)

'I can bang out a tune, and yes I’d love to do a musical – I’m still waiting for the phone call.' - When asked if he would do a musical - (Academy Magazine)

'For Recovery, when I played someone with a serious brain injury, I did a lot. If you’re playing someone who has a real and difficult condition like that you can’t just turn up and do your own thing. We had great resources to call on for that drama with unlimited access to carers and experts and that helped enormously.Sometimes though, there isn’t time to immerse yourself in a subject. I’ve just finished playing Eddington, the astrophysicist. Well, I know a bit more now than I did when I started but with something like neutron physics you’re going to have to busk it a bit and rely on the script to help you out!' - When asked how much research he does for a role - (Academy Magazine)

'Thank you for watching it; thank you for enjoying it. I'm having the time of my life and I'm so glad you're enjoying it.' - David Tennant pays tribute to Doctor Who's fans. - (NTA 2007)

'Peter and Jane were fantastic supporters of our show, were - I think - brilliant at their jobs, and it's a real shame that they're gone. They were very much part of our team and it feels different without them.' - David Tennant on the departures of BBC One controller Peter Fincham and head of PR Jane Fletcher over "misleading" footage of the Queen. - (NTA 2007)

'It doesn’t feel right somehow to know that I’ll be doing a matinee of Hamlet on some afternoon in 18 months’ time,” he ruefully admits. “It’s lovely, but it’s also absurd. Seeing the dates printed in black and white in the RSC schedule makes me feel terrified a whole year in advance. It’s fear on a daily basis.' - David talking about his upcoming Theatre projects. (The Stage, 8th November, 2007)

'You could find yourself in the present or hundreds of years in the past – or five billion years in the future. And the standard of the writing and of the stories is extremely high. I might tweak the odd line here or there, but I’d never dream of pointing out to the writers, in that hackneyed phrase, that my character wouldn’t say this or do that. Russell [T Davies] is the best, so why play around with the best?' - David talking about the Doctor. - (The Stage, 8th November, 2007)

'I know only too well that cancer strikes without regard to age or race, country or creed, fame or fortune. I believe AICR’s approach to funding research, wherever in the world it is taking place, is at the forefront of the battle to bring cancer under control and I am proud to have been asked to become a patron.' - (Association for International Cancer Research)

'We're still working on the new series, but then i've got the whole of May off. I start rehearsals for Hamlet in Stratford-Upon-Avon in June, and im doing that from July until 9th January next year - on 10th January i'm back in Cardiff to start making the Doctor Who 2009 Specials. And after that i really don't know. Nothing has been decided...honestly!' - (DWA, 50)

'I've had the most brilliant, bewildering and life changing time working on Doctor Who. I have loved every day of it. It would be very easy to cling on to the TARDIS console forever and I fear that if I don't take a deep breath and make the decision to move on now, then I simply never will. You would be prising the TARDIS key out of my cold dead hand. This show has been so special to me, I don't want to outstay my welcome.

This is all a long way off, of course. I'm not quitting, I'm back in Cardiff in January to film four special episodes which will take Doctor Who all the way through 2009. I'm still the Doctor all next year but when the time finally comes I'll be honoured to hand on the best job in the world to the next lucky git - whoever that may be.' - (NTA 2008)

'In some ways he is a great, forgotten man, which is why this is an intriguing story to tell. There is one biography which I found and that was very helpful, although there are elements of his private life which are skirted around.

The story we tell is of a man who couldn't quite face the fact that he was gay.' - (David talking about Sir Arthur Eddington)

 

Others on David Tennant

'After about two or three minutes since he’d been introduced to me I thought he was actually quite rude because he just stood in front of me and said nothing. I was beginning to feel quite uncomfortable actually. And do you know what it was? He wasn’t being rude, he was completely in awe because I was Doctor Who.' - (Paul McGann)

'It’s come back because of that handsome floppy-haired bastard," McGann later joked. "I really really like him. I think he’s brilliant. And what’s more, he is a huge ‘Doctor Who’ fan and so he’s really passionate about it.' - (Paul McGann)

'[...] I do get on with David, and that makes it a lot easier, a lot more fun. He's a very funny person, and I like people who are funny.' - (Catherine Tate, DWM, Issue 387)

'I always struggle to keep up with David because he hasn't got breasts like i have. Breasts aren't build for running.' - (Catherine Tate, DWM, Issue 387)

'I see him quite a lot, we are really good mates. I like everything about him, which makes it really easy to be in his company. He’s a sweet, sweet guy. I call him to ask him all my acting questions and he always supports what I do.' - (Billie Piper)

'I wish there was more of David Tennant in Goblet of Fire. He's got only a few scenes and he's brilliant in all of them. He's so absolutely, fantastically watchable. I think he'll be a good Doctor Who. I saw him in Casanova. He's absolutely fantastic in it. I would love to work with him again. He's also the nicest person.' - (Daniel Radcliffe)

'David and I got a car from unit base to the set and it was like arriving with a member of Take That, They were all there, screaming his name. And David was fantastic. He was brilliant about how he went over there and signed autographs and talked to people. And that of course, meant that when we were filming, the crowds were very respectful of the filming, because they knew they'd get their moment with David and their photograph taken. He's wonderful.' - (David Morrissey)

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