It’s ghastly. Every time I do a play, I have a moment when I think I’ll never do it again. Genuinely, I’ll think it’s not worth it —– it’s just agony. You’re often aware of how close you are to drying. You’re on stage and you’re composing the speech you’re about to give: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, terribly sorry, but I have to leave the stage now and throw up in my dressing room.’ Maybe I need that fear.
If you’d said to me 6 months ago I’d be into The Horrors I would have haughtily laughed in your face and pointed out that I am in fact 41 years old. How wrong I was. This is a great album, you can’t help who or what you fall in love with and I fell hard for this. It reminds me of being 16. It sounds like The Psychedelic Furs, Bunnymen, Damned with a hint of Simple Minds on Ketamine…. All in a good way. I became obsessed with it, played it on the way back from the School run every day, and when I listen to it it makes me happy. So there.
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| — | John Simm on Skying (via fuckyeahrandombritishindiebands) |
You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it – because that way lies madness – but rather because you believe in it.
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| — | John Simm (via relatedworlds) |
I had a really terrible haircut I’ve got to say, it was awful. Like, erm, because I kinda liked Elvis and Shakin’ Stevens so I had a bit of a quiff but I also liked AC/DC so I had long hair at the back and I didn’t know it was a mullet, I just I knew what I liked and I mixed the styles. So I had a mullet, obviously, and not only was it a mullet it was streaked – white streaks.
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| — | John Simm and his interesting teenage hairstyle choices, on Vinyl Revival (via mrsladybird-face) |
Then, tonight, we went for dinner with John Simm at the St David’s (well, I say dinner - bar food, peanuts and crisps). What a hoot ! God, he can tell an anecdote. I’ve thought of him as the Master for so long, I’d forgotten what brilliant company he is. And he’s the most incredible mimic. I never knew that. He was telling us stories that had pitch-perfect impersonations. […] He loved the Master-as-a-skeleton stuff. Loved the eyes. Also, he was raving about The Dark Knight, and he wants a bit of the Joker’s insanity in the Master this time. […] I wanted to make him madder. Brilliant !
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| — | Russell T. Davies, The writer’s tale - The final Chapter (via padawan8) |
I’m a good person, I hope. But I’m never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.
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| — | David Tennant (via jumpupandownlovestuffnerd) |
End of Time Part 2 Cast Commentary
Simm: They were very scary, the masks. I'd turn up at work and there'd be extras wearing my face.
Tennant: Did you get to keep one?
Simm: I did, I kept one. But I'm not allowed to actually ever bring it out, because I brought it out once and frightened my wife with it.
Tennant: Right.
Simm: Stood behind her, touched her on the shoulder and she turned around and freaked.
Tennant: [laughter] I thought you might make her wear it.
Simm: No! Oh god no, that'd be weird.
I’ve been an obsessive Doctor Who fan since I was a child and it persists to this very day. The BBC run a Doctor Who website and I go on almost every day to check the latest news. Doctor Who is the finest piece of television that has ever been made anywhere. They’re putting together a new TV series next year and Bill Nighy is supposed to play the doctor. I’ve been onto my agent to see if I can get a part, but she’s not keen. She says I’ll never work again if I do it. I’m proud to say, though, that I have already performed in a couple of audiobook episodes. That was heaven.
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| — | David Tennant when asked about his favorite website. 2003 (via jarvizz) |
John had sent me a text when he was doing Hamlet late last year saying he’d just watched an episode. ‘Christ, what a great show we were part of,’ he said. ‘So proud. Wish we’d done more.’
We sat in my hotel room, bottle of wine, and we pissed ourselves laughing. There was one scene I rewound about three times, when Marshall [Lancaster] farts in the back of a surveillance van – I do like a fart gag. It was lovely to watch, especially with John. We were very lucky to be in the show.
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| — | Philip Glenister, The Telegraph (6 Oct. 2011) |
It is what separates us from despair, I think, is laughter. Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.
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| — | Craig Ferguson (via aaandlovingit) |
