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Top 20 David Tennant Quotes (2025 Update)

David Tennant Quote: “Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”

1. “Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! Best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”

2. “You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! Best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “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.”

3. “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

David Tennant Quote: “I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.”

4. “I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I still am a geek, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.”

5. “I still am a geek, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.”

6. “I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “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.”

7. “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

David Tennant Quote: “It’s very hard to be objective about something you’re in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.”

8. “It’s very hard to be objective about something you’re in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I often stop when I’m doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now. So far, I’ve been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.”

9. “I often stop when I’m doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now. So far, I’ve been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn’t get to do.”

10. “How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn’t get to do.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “When you’re playing a real person there’s a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.”

11. “When you’re playing a real person there’s a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “Moths are the ones that freak me out. It’s something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There’s something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.”

12. “Moths are the ones that freak me out. It’s something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There’s something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety’s the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.”

13. “It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety’s the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “To have someone who’s got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.”

14. “To have someone who’s got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I don’t want to go.”

15. “I don’t want to go.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.”

16. “We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “Twitter! It’s like being stalked by committee!”

17. “Twitter! It’s like being stalked by committee!”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it’s quite hard to really break that down entirely.”

18. “And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it’s quite hard to really break that down entirely.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “An accent, obviously, it’s to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you, I think.”

19. “An accent, obviously, it’s to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you, I think.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I mean, you know, while I’m acting on stage I’m ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I’m probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous...”

20. “I mean, you know, while I’m acting on stage I’m ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I’m probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous...”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. I think it’s part of trying to find what makes a character.”

22. “If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. I think it’s part of trying to find what makes a character.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I always like seeing people transforming themselves in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.”

23. “I always like seeing people transforming themselves in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.”

— David Tennant

David Tennant Quote: “I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. It’s something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.”

24. “I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. It’s something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.”

— David Tennant

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