Jodie Whittaker

I'm the type of person that you'd walk past and go, 'I think I went to school with her,' or 'I know her and I can't quite place it.' It certainly isn't, 'I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.'

I'll never be able to quantify how important 'Venus' was for me or my career. I ticked a huge box.

You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.

I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.

Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don't always look the same is a huge honour for me.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

I'm opinionated, and I'm comfortable with confrontation. I'm very happy to say if I believe the opposite of what you think.

There's the chiselled superhero that we're used to seeing and we've all grown up with. But Doctor Who has never been that, which is wonderful. It's attainable in so many ways.

I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.