19 Quotes by William Hartnell

Children of five and upwards write asking if it's my own hair, whether I'm married, how old I am, what's inside a Dalek and how Tardis works. Nearly all of them send me drawings of Daleks and incidents from stories.

I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome.

I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere.

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

I saw the Doctor as a kind of lama, one of those long-lived old boys out in Tibet who might be anything up to eight hundred years old but only look seventy-five.

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

I couldn't go out into the streets without a bunch of kids following me. I felt like the Pied Piper. Everyone calls me 'Doctor Who' and I feel like I actually am him.

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

I'm not brassed off, it's just it's the association of the Dalek question, this mechanical mobile object, I'm beginning to find it distracting. And they were difficult to play to, because you're not looking into human eyes. You're looking at a metal object, moving about, with a voiceover.