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'Of course you ARE Doctor Who, aren't you?'
'Well, yes, I am. I am.'
'I mean, all the time, aren't you?'
'Well, I'm not as benevolent as... I mean, Doctor Who is not really an acting part... But I mean, I'm not as benevolent as the character, as kind as the character, and as even-tempered as the character. But yes, I mean, it's just me. That's all, I suppose.'
'But you have to be Doctor Who all the time, I'm told. People regard you totally when they see you as Doctor Who, nothing else. Do you, do you see...'
'Well, I don't have to be Doctor Who any more than you have to be Frank Bough.'
'But I AM Frank Bough!'
'I know you are. And I'm Doctor Who because I have a fictional image!'
'I do not have a fictional image, I'm me.'
'Of course you do, people already believe that you exist, they all see you on the television, of course, I see you at cricket games and things like that. But it's true that people have a televisual impression of you as they have of me. In my case of course I play a heroic figure, whereas yours is associated with a kind of... terrifying spencer...'