Top 70 Matt Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”

— Matt Smith

2. “I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.”

— Matt Smith

3. “In 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.”

— Matt Smith

4. “Be brave. Don’t be afraid to be stupid.”

— Matt Smith

5. “By not speaking you don’t get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.”

— Matt Smith

6. “When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.”

— Matt Smith

7. “Time travel is such a magic concept.”

— Matt Smith

8. “Kids should feel afraid of ‘Doctor Who.’ All the adults I’ve talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That’s part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you’re afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”

— Matt Smith

9. “Amy Pond, there’s something you’d better understand about me ’cause it’s important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!”

— Matt Smith

10. “My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.”

— Matt Smith

11. “I am a fan of a bright sock. They’re bold.”

— Matt Smith

12. “A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means “Theocracy within”. In other words, trying to live by God’s principles instead of just living selfishly.”

— Matt Smith

13. “In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.”

— Matt Smith

14. “I’m not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I’m a real grump when it comes to technology. I’m like, come on, just write me a letter.”

— Matt Smith

15. “It’s very rare that I play cool people. I’m not sure what that says about me.”

— Matt Smith

16. “Lyrical content is very important to me. I’m always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.”

— Matt Smith

17. “I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It’s about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that’s what makes it interesting.”

— Matt Smith

18. “If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them.”

— Matt Smith

19. “We didn’t start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren’t trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.”

— Matt Smith

20. “I’ve always loved dinosaurs.”

— Matt Smith

21. “Making people think about data outside of the office environment somehow makes it easier to connect with the issue you are trying to overcome within it.”

— Matt Smith

22. “Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life – for the changes, not only in my life, but my family’s. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.”

— Matt Smith

23. “I’m not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.”

— Matt Smith

24. “I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.”

— Matt Smith

25. “There’s rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they’re much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I’m like, I dunno why, they’d all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans.”

— Matt Smith

26. “I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.”

— Matt Smith

27. “Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.”

— Matt Smith

28. “I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There’s a real sense of sacrifice. There’s a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.”

— Matt Smith

29. “I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.”

— Matt Smith

30. “As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn’t full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.”

— Matt Smith

31. “When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, “That’s it for the rest of your life.” I’ll be Doctor to a whole generation when they’re 50.”

— Matt Smith

32. “The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.”

— Matt Smith

33. “There’s too much of everything – too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You’re seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It’s almost a “here this week, forgotten next week” thing.”

— Matt Smith

34. “I just love vampires.”

— Matt Smith

35. “I think expectations of ‘Doctor Who’ should always be high, because it’s a show that must always progress and get better and better.”

— Matt Smith

36. “I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It’s my thing.”

— Matt Smith

37. “I constantly watch ‘The Simpsons’ and an English cartoon called ‘The Raccoons’ and ‘Gummi Bears.’ I was obsessed with ninja films, and the ‘Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,’ I used to love that as well.”

— Matt Smith

38. “At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, ‘All right, Doctor Who?’ And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.”

— Matt Smith

39. “History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.”

— Matt Smith

40. “I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and ‘Doctor Who’ would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn’t. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.”

— Matt Smith

41. “I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.”

— Matt Smith

42. “As we get older – perhaps I’m just speaking for myself – we can get too cynical.”

— Matt Smith

43. “There’s something very intimate about taking someone’s work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person.”

— Matt Smith

44. “Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there’s some Freudian significance behind that.”

— Matt Smith

45. “A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it’s released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.”

— Matt Smith

46. “Even now, I’m very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.”

— Matt Smith

47. “I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.”

— Matt Smith

48. “I am a terrible sleeper.”

— Matt Smith

49. “I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don’t get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.”

— Matt Smith

50. “I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that’s not often the case.”

— Matt Smith