February 2012
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David Tennant, 2003
Interviewer: If you hadn't become an actor, what would you have done professionally?
David: I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.
Interviewer: What were your favourite stories as a child?
David: The books I read as a child were all Doctor Who books! There were hundreds of episodes, which were all novelised, and that's all I ever wanted to read.
Interviewer: Favourite website?
David: Oh, it's a real anorak admission. 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.
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf (via alexandremcqueen)
Professor: You can't even remember your own name, Einstein!
Fry: Einstein is a hard name to remember!
Ash Wednesday: An Overheard Conversation
Girl 1: I kinda wanna get ashes today. Do you have to like sit through a whole mass to get 'em though?
Girl 2: Oh my God, I wanna get 'em too but I'm totally not going if you have to sit through a whole entire mass.
Girl 3: Yeah, actually you don't have to go to whole mass. You actually just go right up to the guy and he puts 'em on your head.
Girl 1: Oh thank God. You wanna go get 'em after lunch?
Girl 2: Umm, I would...but I'm going to the library actually.
Girl 1: Fuck it, I guess I just won't go. They should definitely make it easier to get ashes. I mean, like it's important to some people...
I bet Rick Astley struggles with Lent.
