79+ Matt Smith Quotes On Marriage, Education And Government

Matt Smith is an English actor best known for playing the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who. He has also starred in films such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Terminator Genisys. He has also had roles in the Netflix series The Crown and the BBC series His Dark Materials. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Matt Smith on leadership, life, marriage.

Top 10 Matt Smith Quotes

1. A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.
2. Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.
3. Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.
4. When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
5. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
6. 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.
7. I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
8. 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.
9. I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
10. I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

Matt Smith Short Quotes

• In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important
• I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.
• I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.
• The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally.
• When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.
• I am a terrible sleeper.
• I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'
• It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.
• Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.
• Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

Matt Smith Quotes About Life

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box! — Matt Smith

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50. — Matt Smith

Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically. — Matt Smith

Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through. — Matt Smith

Matt Smith Quotes About Love

I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud. — Matt Smith

I've always loved dinosaurs. — Matt Smith

Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect. — Matt Smith

Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond. — Matt Smith

I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense. — Matt Smith

I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing. — Matt Smith

I just love vampires. — Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation. — Matt Smith

Matt Smith Famous Quotes And Sayings

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way. — Matt Smith

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. — Matt Smith

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting. — Matt Smith

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. — Matt Smith

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. — Matt Smith

If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them. — Matt Smith

I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs. — Matt Smith

I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff. — Matt Smith

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence. — Matt Smith

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. — Matt Smith

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them. — Matt Smith

I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job. — Matt Smith

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. — Matt Smith

There’s rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they’re much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I’m like, I dunno why, they’d all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans. — Matt Smith

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. — Matt Smith

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve. — Matt Smith

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest. — Matt Smith

I think expectations of Doctor Who should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better. — Matt Smith

As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can. — Matt Smith

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical. — Matt Smith

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level. — Matt Smith

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it. — Matt Smith

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. — Matt Smith

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer. — Matt Smith

I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond. — Matt Smith

I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it. — Matt Smith

In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful. — Matt Smith

I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor. — Matt Smith

There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person. — Matt Smith

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. — Matt Smith

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. — Matt Smith

Time travel is such a magic concept. — Matt Smith

I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band. — Matt Smith

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character. — Matt Smith

No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall. — Matt Smith

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. — Matt Smith

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States. — Matt Smith

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to. — Matt Smith

I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold. — Matt Smith

I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter. — Matt Smith

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case. — Matt Smith

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story. — Matt Smith

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera. — Matt Smith

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly. — Matt Smith

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic. — Matt Smith

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud. — Matt Smith

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal. — Matt Smith

Life Lessons by Matt Smith

1. Matt Smith has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he has achieved a great deal of recognition for his acting work.
2. He has also shown that taking risks and trying new things can be rewarding, as he has had a varied career and explored different genres.
3. Finally, he has shown that it is possible to stay true to yourself and your values while still achieving success in the entertainment industry.