Matthew Waterhouse

Matthew Waterhouse: (on Adric's death) It was a very strange feeling finding out that I was going to be killed off. I didn't protest at all, though. I didn't think they would listen anyway... Also, I think that's the right departure for him. Can you see him leaving for love or sexual reasons? I don't think so. For the children of the time, it's one of the moments of television that will remain with them forever.

Matthew Waterhouse: In my view, there are no good actors under about forty, because actors become good through experience- both of acting and of life.

Matthew Waterhouse: The job of an actor is to burrow as deeply as possible into the character being played, but in a series like Doctor Who, it has to be said, this is probably a waste of effort. There simply isn't enough there to find. I was getting immersed in all these questions, which are the very stuff of fine acting, and of course it's wholly irrelevant. Perhaps it would have been better if I'd forgotten it, and smiled a lot. But that's not the way I work. I am many things, but I'm not a hack.