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When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

~David Tennant

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When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

~David Tennant

Topics: Audience Because Experiencing First First Time Going How Important Know Moment Purest Read Reading Really Receive Script Then Time Ultimately Understand Will Work You

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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.

~David Tennant

Topics: Generous Good Good Person Hope Never Nice Person Want

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I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

~David Tennant

Topics: Appealing Catch Characters Clever Heroic Love Rather Run Smart Something Think Up Very Who You I Think I Love

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Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

~David Tennant

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I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

~David Tennant

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Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.

~David Tennant

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I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

~David Tennant

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I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

~David Tennant

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I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.

~David Tennant

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Actor

Born: April 18th, 1971

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