Tom Riley Quotes & Sayings

“I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.”

“I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.”

“I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.”

“Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.”

“I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.”

“I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.”

“I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.”

“I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.”

“The thing about 'Doctor Who' is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location.”

“I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.”