Matt Smith
Matt Smith
Best known to audiences for his BAFTA Award-winning role as the eleventh incarnation of The Doctor on the hit sci-fi series Doctor Who.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth28 October 1982
CityNorthampton, England
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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.
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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.
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What he does a good job of doing is throwing strikes and getting ground balls. He got a lot of ground balls today.
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We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I thought maybe he was a stickler about the dress code being on the road. I said, 'What do you mean?' and he said, 'The dress code is a little different in the big leagues.' I thought he was joking, but I know a manager wouldn't do that to a guy in my situation who had never been there.
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The asking price didn't mean anything. ... You can only get brushed off so many times. We stopped writing offers.
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That's been our way all year. We kind of sit around and wait for something to happen. We've got bats. We can hit. We've just got to get them going earlier, and we've got to lock up our defense.
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Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.