"I suppose I would be a logical choice to play the Doctor just because Giles, my character in Buffy, has the same light and dark sides and quirkiness as Doctor Who."

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“It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.”

“ctors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.”

“I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped—as it is when you've been shot across the chest.”

“We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about.”

“I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.”

“Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.”

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