I remember being quite shocked after auditioning for Lord of the Rings that I was rejected for that. That really surprised me. But it isn't big rejections for very big films necessarily, it's often small rejections you know, or rejections of ideas.

Because I got so, not conceited, but I got self-confident over Doctor Who, I thought that would rock on for ever. It's now twenty-three years ago since I gave it up.

It was the most wonderful part I ever did, and I thought life would go on like that, but it wasn't like that. It's been very up and down, and often I have ideas that people don't like. Usually they think I have bad taste.

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