Quotes from Mark Gatiss

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

Do you believe in Evil, Mr Box? said my companion, grinding his jaw and looking at the couple with unfeigned contempt. Only on Wednesdays.

I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magdalene!' 'Don't be so fucking stupid,' snorted Mons. 'There's hundreds of those!

Me having the right to get married doesn't take anything away from anyone else. Rights aren't like cake: me having some doesn't mean you get less.

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.

A better time. A simpler time,' said the Doctor. 'That's what we all yearn for. The pain of wanting to belong somewhere. To go home.

You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right.

I know that what's done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward.

I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped

Intuitions are not to be ignored, John. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.

I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.' Oh, that's a good one, thought Ace.

Any time, any place, any where. He's not called Doctor Martini, is he?

Taking your own life. Interesting expression, taking it from who? Once it's gone it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everyone else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it!

Travel, though it broadens the mind, narrows the life expectancy.

I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.