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. William Hartnell Read Quote
I haven’t the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere. William Hartnell Read Quote
I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero’s Rome. William Hartnell Read Quote
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. William Hartnell Read Quote
To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world. William Hartnell Read Quote
Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn’t interest me at all. William Hartnell Read Quote
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. William Hartnell Read Quote
My agent said the part was that of an eccentric old grandfather-come-professor type who travels in space and time. Well, I wasn’t that keen, but I agreed to meet the producer. Then, the moment this brilliant young producer, Verity Lambert, started telling me about ‘Doctor Who,’ l was hooked. William Hartnell Read Quote
