Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.
Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.
If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
I think it's the people that you work with who change you the most.
To be honest, I don’t think there’s any other show like ‘Doctor Who’ at all.
I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.
I used to dance a lot when I was younger. And I didn't want to stop doing it. I auditioned for drama school and then, luckily, I got my first job. There was never really a particular moment, more like moments of "I love this," or scripts that you read, or films that you watch, or plays that you see, that make you want to keep doing it.
I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.
I am a restless person.
I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.
The Gallifreyan balls are my favourite because you can juggle with them!
I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.
Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.
That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.
I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.
I've kind of gone from TV series to TV series or project to project, and I've wanted to get back in a rehearsal room. I feel like there's that exploration process, in a way, that you get in phases on jobs but I do wish I had that time [at school].
I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.
