Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.

You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

'Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.

I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.