Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by William Hartnell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor William Hartnell.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

William Henry Hartnell was an English actor. While he made numerous stage and television appearances and acted in over 75 British films, he is best remembered as the First Doctor in BBC Television's Doctor Who, which he played from 1963 to 1966. Earlier he was cast in military roles, playing Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the ITV sitcom The Army Game and Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character of the first Carry On film Carry On Sergeant (1958).

English - Actor | January 8, 1908 - April 23, 1975

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I couldn't go out into the streets without a bunch of kids following me. I felt like the Pied Piper. Everyone calls me 'Doctor Who' and I feel like I actually am him.

William Hartnell

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, but I agreed to meet the producer. Then, the moment this brilliant young producer, Verity Lambert, started telling me about 'Doctor Who,' l was hooked.

William Hartnell

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

William Hartnell

I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere.

William Hartnell

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 a metal object, moving about, with a voiceover.

William Hartnell

We did 'Doctor Who' for forty-eight weeks a year but I loved it.

William Hartnell

I was so pleased to be offered 'Doctor Who.'

William Hartnell

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 how Tardis works. Nearly all of them send me drawings of Daleks and incidents from stories.

William Hartnell

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 eight hundred years old but only look seventy-five.

William Hartnell

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

William Hartnell

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. Not everybody thought as I did. I was universally scoffed at for my initial faith in the series, but I believed in it.

William Hartnell

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

William Hartnell

I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome.

William Hartnell

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.

William Hartnell

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

William Hartnell