Quotes from Matt Smith

I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

I am and will always be the optimist. The Hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams."(The 11th Doctor-Matt Smith)