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… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all. — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
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… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome. — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
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,… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere. — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world. — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
It may seem like hindsight now, but I just knew that 'Doctor Who' was going to be an enormous success. Don't ask me how.… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image
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… — William Hartnell Copy Share Image