Daniel Mays Quotes

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I've watched 'Doctor Who' since I was a kid. I loved it, and I still love it. I can geek out about it, like when I go to set and see the TARDIS.

I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

I'm so excited 'Doctor Who''s coming back. It's a great show, wild and exciting. I watched it as a kid, and it freaked me out.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.