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Matt Smith [1982-0] English

Rank: 103
Actor

Matthew Robert "Matt" Smith is an English actor. He is best known for his role as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination in 2011.

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As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.		101
I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.		102
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.		103
I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.		104
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.	Cool	105
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.		106
It's hard work, 'Doctor Who,' but let's be frank about it, I'm fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am. I don't just mean financially, I mean the nature of the part and everything that comes with it.		107
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.	Amazing	108
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.	Age	109
I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.		110
If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.		111
I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.		112
I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.		113
I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've got a lot to achieve workwise - I'd love to direct - but family would be good.		114
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.		115
I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.	Dad	116
Time travel is such a magic concept.	Travel	117
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.		118
If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them.		119
I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'		120
Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.		121
Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.		122
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.		123
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.		124
I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.		125
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.		126
Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.		201
Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.		202
I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.		203
I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.		204
I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.		205
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.'		206
If you want to give it a good go, you've got to make some sacrifices and be as dedicated as you can be. Particularly with 'Doctor Who.' It's two or three hours of line-learning a night.		207
I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.		208
I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.		209
Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.		210
The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.		211
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.		212
Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.		213
No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.		214
I've always loved dinosaurs.		215
I just love vampires.		216
I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.		217
Every two weeks on 'Doctor Who,' the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in. So, it's constantly surprising, and it's a pressure that you relish, actually.		218
I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.		219
I am a terrible sleeper.		220
I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.		221
There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.		222
It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.		223
So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?		224
I was always aware of 'Doctor Who,' but I didn't grow up with it.		225
I'd like to do a play in New York.		226

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