Matt Smith
Matt Smith
Best known to audiences for his BAFTA Award-winning role as the eleventh incarnation of The Doctor on the hit sci-fi series Doctor Who.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth28 October 1982
CityNorthampton, England
blue yellow four
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.
pairs stealing sock
I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.
next-week events albums
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.
ponds amy-pond amy
Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.
dream optimist improbable
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
doctors people scarves
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.
people three months
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.
stars rocks worry
Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
vintage shoes clothes
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.
people together environment
I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.
beautiful self focus
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen.
responsibility actors salt
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.
cynical
As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.
silly ties boots
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.